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It’s jam-packed with Mac tools.

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22 Speed Up Your Mac

If your Mac is moving about as fast as a Yugo on a 45-degree
grade, it’s time to give it a boost. From the craftiest hardware
upgrades to the most effective—
and free— system tweaks, we
tell you how to get the
most out of your Mac
without having to
buy that new
Quicksilver G4,
by Dave
Hamilton

i think I can.

I think I can. I know I can.
I know I can.

33 AppleScript Can Do R All!

Why do the boring
stuff when your
Mac can do it for
you? Thafs our
philosophy, anyway.

Ifthere’s a repetitive,
humdrum taskyou
hate, chances are an
AppleScript can take
care of it for you. Now
all you have to do is
learn how to write
AppleScripts. No
problema, amigo...
by Ian Sammis

Since 1 began scripting,
my dreams have become
pretty freakin’ weird.

63 Bidld a Photomontage

Capturing the right photo to illustrate an idea can be an
incredible pain in the ass. Rather than go to great lengths to
stage a scene, you can build your own desktop scenery by
layering multiple images to create a photomontage. We show
you how. by Steven Parke and Kris Fong

OK, I built it— now where are they?

Skeddadlin’
bandwidth rustlers.

HRch a RIdo on Any
Broadband Lino

If your housemate’s high-speed
Internet connection makes you
envious, don’t just twiddle
your thumbs while waiting
for your poky dial-up
connection. Steal your
buddy’s bandwidth
Instead! Get the scoop
on how to hook up a
router and network multiple
computers to a single DSL or
cable line, by Leigh Webber

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8 Edltop's Note —

Mac OS 10.1 is here. All is forgiven.

14 Letters

Older readers horde hardware and younger ones* legs go numb. Go figure.

16 Get Info —

Fee-fle-foe-fum,
I smell the blood of
a Windows bum!

Find out what happens when the design world descends on
San Francisco, how Mac companies show their love for New
York City, which digital camera can connect to the Internet,
who pedaled around the Burning Man art festival, and how
Macs gave Whoopi Goldberg a makeover.

20 Scrapbook

Meet the supermodels you see every day.

40Roviews

40 Maya for Mac OS X Design & Graphics

42 Minolta Dimage S304 Hardware

43 MSE-U33HB USB Digital
Audio Processor Hardware

44 Quicken 2002 Deluxe Productivity
46 Brother HL-1470N Hardware
48 PDA Roundup Hardware
50 Jukebox HD-MP3 Recorder Hardware

62 Powerplay

RPGs— role-playing games— are coming back into play in a big
way. Don't believe us? Check out the latest developments master-
minded by creative gaming companies— and ifs not who you
think. We also bug Destineer Studios* Peter Tamte to find out what
he*s been up to lately.

Hmm... There’s a Supercuts— now,

74 Ask Us exactly how hip do I want to be?

Buz Zoller is light years ahead of us when it comes to answering
your technical questions. On his agenda this month: using a
PlayStation controller with a Mac, improving Base Station recep-
tion, the annoyances of Apple's new download site, and more.

96 Shut Oown

If you’re happy and you
know it, clap your
hands... ahhhhhh!

51 FlightCheck4.2 Productivity

52 Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn Fun & Games
56 LaCie U&l CD-RW Drive Hardware

56 The Magic School Bus
Volcano Adventure Kids’ stuff

57 Graphire2 Hardware

58 CanoScan N1240U Hardware

59 Timbuktu Pro 6 utilities

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What a difference . 1 makes.

I ’m no longer wom*ed. I’m excited.

Six months ago I installed Mac OS X,
version lo.o, on my Mac— and it scared
the crap out of me. Sure, it was gorgeous,
and sure, its Unix underpinnings promised
stability and power unachievable in any
previous Mac OS, but I didn’t want promise.

I wanted performance.

Let’s face facts, folks: Version lo.o was
cranky. Menus disappeared, icons moved
wherever they damn well pleased, support
for peripherals was weak— and it ran slower
than my ’78 Honda Civic.

Earlier this week I installed version 10.1,
and immediately dope-slapped myself for
ever doubting the Wizards of Cupertino.
What a difference six months makes.

Simply put, Mac OS 10.1 works.

It’s fast, it supports mass quantities of
peripherals. Its Aqua user experience has
been polished to a fine sheen, it supports
virtually every important networking and
connectivity standard right out of the box,
and— if my perception based on limited
experience is correct— it’s solid as a rock.
What’s more, it contains a horde of internal
improvements that’ll make life easier for
third-party developers. And you know what
that means, right? More and better goodies
for Mac lovers like you and me.

Take OS lo.i’s graphics enhancements,
for example. Support for the PDF 1.3 imaging
model? It’s in there. ColorSync 4.0? Yup.
NVidia GeForces support? Uh-huh. How
about improved printer support? More than
200 built-in PPD files, at your service.

Audio improvements also abound,
starting with high-resolution, 24-bit, 96kHz
audio. In fact, OS 10.1 manages all audio as
32-bit floating-point data, which not only
results in great sound today but also paves
the way for even higher-resolution sound
tomorrow. Multichannel audio processing is
also built in, allowing developers to craft as
many channels as they need. Home-theater-
on-a-Mac, anyone? There’s also built-in MIDI
management and a new DSP (digital signal
processor) plug-in architecture called Audio
Units that’ll make it easier for developers to
create standardized plug-ins for audio
effects such as distortion, reverb, and
quack-like-a-duck converters. Just kidding
about that last one. I think.

The networking and connectivity
improvements are freakin’ insane. With OS

OS 10.1 is as reliable as Rik’s trusty 78
Honda. Luckily, it’s also quite a bit faster.

10.1 installed, your Mac can seamlessly
communicate with most every computer on
the planet— though we’re not completely
certain about the Timex/Sinclair 1000. (Now
take a deep breath, because we’re about to
enter the rarefied air of acronym-land.) Built
right inside OS 10.1 is support for AFP
over AppleTalk, AFP over IP, SMB/CIFS
connectivity that lets your Mac be a client of
Windows and SAMBA Unix servers, and—
of course— good ol’ PPP, PPPoE, NFS, and
LDAP capabilities. If you know what I’m
talking about, you know that I’m mixing
networking and connectivity terminology
rather freely here. If you don’t know your
LDAP from your PPPoE, suffice it to say that
your lo.i-equipped Mac will.

One last acronym: WebDAV. Now that
10.1 is Apple’s operating system du jour,
iDiskwill be hosted using the industry-
standard WebDAV protocol. What does this
mean to you? Well, because WebDAV allows
your IDiskto connect to Apple’s servers only
when you access it, you can now leave your
iDisk mounted on the desktop at all times.
No more annoying time-out messages.

But wait! There’s more! AppleScript
improvements; DVD support; Finder-based
burning of data CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD-R
discs; OpenGL speed improvements;
speedier file copying; XML-RPC and SOAP
support for whizzy Internet apps; two-line
icon names...and so on. All good stuff.

My early OS X fears were groundless.

As I tell my kids, sometimes It’s good to be
wrong.— /?/k Myslewski

One final note. All of us here of MacAddict open our
hearts to any and all of you who lost friends, family,
colleagues, or coworkers in the events of September
11. We can*t know how you feel, but we can let you
know that you*re part of a community that cares, and
cares deeply. A loss felt by one is shared by all.

Staff Rants

JenHerMoigan ^

Xing Out the X Editor

Q. What will you do with all the time you
save by using OS 10. 1 ?

Am Lobby to ban
Roman
numerals
from

marketing
schemes
worldwide.

Q« What new
feature do you
want in OS Xi?

Am I would like a parrot-joke
generator, with a little bird-cage icon.

Kris Fong

The Procrastinateditor

Q. What will
you do with all
the time you
save by using
OS 10.1?

Am Oh. I’ll
eventually
try to figure
out how to
unlearn everything
I’ve been used to doing since System
7, and figure out where everything is in OS X.
Q* What new feature do you want in OS XI?
Am An aspirin dispenser.

Chief Agoraphobe

Q» What will
you do with all
the time you
save by using
OSw.i?

Am I’ll finally Step
outside to enjoy the scenery. I’ll look up at
the sky and marvel at how it looks nearly as
real as the skies in Bryce 3D.

Qm What new feature do you want in OS XI?
Am Programs that will run on It.

8[MacAdd/cf|DEC/01

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trademark of Califon Productions. Inc. ©2001 Califon Productions, inc. All rights reserved. Alt other trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Manufactured and marketed by Infogrames, Inc., N.Y., N.Y.

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eaisc

Software to Keep You Cozy
Through the Holiday Season

Candy Crisis

Sure, you can call it a Tetris clone, but Candy Crisis is
much more entertaining. Colorful, cartoonlike graphics
(complete with particle effects and dynamic shadows and
lighting, charming music, and addictive gameplay will keep
you planted on your computer chair— and craving Skittles— for
hours. What*5 more, this latest version has been OS X-ified.

EarUiBpowsep

Our Shareware Pick of the Month! If you want to know what havoc Mother Nature and
her forces are doling out to the Earth at any given time, the intuitive EarthBrowser
puts the whole world in your hands (well, on your desktop, anyway), providing you
with real-time weather anywhere in the world. Forget your local weather guy— this
program gives you global info whenever you need it and features weather forecasts,
cloud-formation satellite overviews, real-time earthquake information, and round-
the-world Web cams.

Candy Crisis: Sweet! Candy Crisis not only
looks lickable, its fast pace will lick even the most
brain-centric gamer.

EarthBrowser: Get the latest weather from
EarthBrowser so you can prepare to freeze your
butt off when you’re heading to San Francisco.

<i> Now Up-to-Dato & Contact Donio

Whether you’re an on-the-go executive or a parent wrangling an army of wily kids
(and let’s not forget your spouse), you need to stay on top of things. Now Up-to-Date
& Contact is a PIM (personal information manager) that includes advanced features
like networkwide scheduling for organizations, and it’s as easy as marking your
kitchen calendar with a pen! You can jot down a phone number or create an
appointment without even launching the program.

0 PHaps of GarendaH

Pillars of GarendaH may just be the pillar of all RPGs (role-playing games). Brimming
with over 100 hours of gameplay to keep you busy indoors during the long winter
break. Pillars stars you as a valiant servant of the GarendaH kingdom, where you do
battle with all that is evil. Beenox created Pillars of GarendaH using the Coldstone
Game Engine, a soon-to-be-released game-creation tool that we expect similar games
will use as a launching pad in the future.

Holiday Bonus: December Nitrozac comics; "Best of Mac Show Live,’’ volume 5;
Bert’s Unix tutorial, part 3; Maya demonstration movies; exclusive Steve Jobs paper
doll and wardrobe.

Now Up-To-Date & Contact: Making a
shopping list for Christmas dinner? Now you won’t
forget the Tater Tots.

Pillars of GarendaH: Drat! My sword is
useless against that deceptive mullet shield!

Radius Is an Internet film from K2 Films.

The company’s Web site (www.radius.com)
covers the maldng of the film In a journal-
entry style, so you can follow its progress.
This month’s staff video takes an exclusive,
behind-the-scenes look at some of the special
effects in the film, and shares some words of
wisdom from Helmut Kobler, director of
Radius, who gladly participated in an
impromptu interview one summer afternoon.
The trailer for Radius is also on The Disc.

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MAC-ROSOR

Thanks for a great article on Microsoft and
the MacBU. It’s good that people know the
truth about Microsoft: Namely, as far-
fetched as it seems, the people writing Mac
software really care about the platform. It’s
nice to know we can still make Bill Gates
look over his shoulder once in a while.

—Dan Wiencek

BAD MEMORIES

Last summer I took a computer-game
programming course at a school in
Redmond, Washington. Every day for one-
half hour, 1 rode on a bus full of Microsoft
employees from Seattle through the
Redmond Microsoft campus on the way to
school. It took a lot of therapy, but I finally
blocked out the horrible images I’d seen
(ugly-ass portables and employees). Well,
what do I see when I watch the October 2001
stafp video: the Place of Doom! I guess It’s
back to my Microsoft-induced nightmares
and incoherent babbling.— Sfephe/? Frerotte

FLIRTING WITH THE ENEMY

In your article on Microsoft, you omitted one
rather Important fact: They are criminals. I
expect better from you guys. No more
foolishness about how Microsoft Is nicey-
nicey, please. They are nobody’s friend, and
in your hearts you know \t— Chris Johnson

SOUND OFF

In your article “150 Shareware Gems”
(Oct/01, p26), you left out an excellent
application called SoundApp 2.7 by Norman
Franke. Without this wonderful, free
application, I would spend needless hours
at my computer manually converting tons of
MP3Sto CD-quality AIF files. SoundApp can
run in the background while I surf the
Internet, or for large files, it can batch-
convert them and beep me when it’s done. I
humbly nominate SoundApp 2.7 for the top
25 utilities no Mac user can live without.
—Terry Jackson

FROM ONE OLD DUDE
TO ANOTHER

It is good to see a fellow old guy In charge of
a Mac rag. I’m a freak for MacAddict I think I
have one of the first few Discs. I remember
when the Beatles were new and when
microwave ovens were the wave of the
future. I bought my first Mac, an SE, in 1986.
Since then I have owned an LC, a Performa,
an iMac DVSE, and a G4. In all that time.

I’ve only taken two machines to the shop.
Lightning fried the SE, so I had to replace
the analog board, and I kicked the CD tray
on the G4 and had to replace the drive. You
go, d ude.— Ray Meyers

GATES IN HIDING

When I received my October issue of
MacAddict, I turned to page 6 to
read about the new editor, and I thought,
“Nol Bill Gates In MacAddict holding a
TiBook?” Fortunately, I didn’t throw away
the mag— I saw it was our new editor. Hey
Rik, I go back to 1984 with Apple. My first
was an Apple We — Woody Schlegel

SHARING OPINIONS

I read with interest your article “150
Shareware Gems” (Oct/01, p26). You left
out MacNuclide, written by Craig Stone and
available from Brookhaven National Lab
(www.nndc.bnl.gov). As a nuclear engineer
and an avid Mac user, I find it as valuable as
a chart of the nuclides.— Remr/f

AN UNREAL TABLET

I’m playing Unreal Tournament and I pick up
my Wacom mouse. Lo and behold— when I
put the mouse down twice, the game
reacted to it. The second button (on the
mouse) even fired secondary fire. Try it, it’s
really fun— Logan Swanson
Wacom^s drivers now support input
sprockets, so some of your games will
respond to its mouse.— Ed.

JUST GOOD PLAIN FUN

The author of “Shareware Pick of the Month”
{Get Info, Sep/01, pi8) was correct when she
wrote: “Sometimes the no-frills games are
the most fun to play.” I play Artillery on my
Mac SE very often. I also play Risk,

Cyberblast, and other old games without
stunning graphics, and I still have lots and
lots of fun,— /os/? Hillmann

Recently Sighted

Our newest addition to the femily
(Audrey, age 16 months) found a 13-hour
road trip easier to handle thanks to our
Other newest addition to the family
(Snow iBook, age 3 months).— Roof Lott

WHO’S THAT ANIMATOR?

OK, I give up. The September Disc rocks. It’s
the best ever. I want a lifetime subscription.
Mostly I want to know what apps you used
to build the animation and interface.

—Eric Howell

One of our readers, Michigan J.S., did the
animation using Newtek Lightwave 3D and
Adobe After Effects. MacAddict editor Ian
Sammis built the tour using REALbasic (the
demo of which is included on The Disc just
about every month).— Ed.

NOW THAT’S A MAC ADDICT!

1 wanted you to know what a special place
your magazine occupies in my household.
Sometimes I get so wrapped up in reading
MacAddict that I forget what I’m doing and
stay on the toilet until my legs go numb.
—Robert Westmoreland

PERLY MISTAKES

Oy vey! Do you want to make all of the Perl
hackers reading your magazine pull out their
hair? In your story “Rnd and Use CGI Scripts
with Mac OS X” (Sep/01, p66), you
repeatedly referred to Perl as PERL. It made
you guys look almost as stupid as PC users
who refer to the Macintosh as MAC (but not
quite).— Tftomas Dale

141 MacAdd/cf I DEC/01

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If I wanted to keep books all day, I’d have been an accountant.

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MYOB software is the simplest, most powerful, most complete
solution for managing my company on the Mac, from the
day to day to the bottom line.

Antique frames. Quartz movements. That’s my business.

MYOB software works for me.

The news of the month in bite-size chunks.

Sbb Swliold Bun

New Mac Products Shine at
Semiannual Design Conference

Designers lounge at Seybold San Francisco 2001.

T imes are tough and the economy is slow, but that didn’t
stop Seybold Seminars from kicking off its semiannual
design conference this past September in San Francisco.
Despite lower-than-average attendance, the mood on the floor was
upbeat: Conference attendees talked shop and a slew of Mac
companies showed off cool new products.— A//?

Adobe

Adobe announced Carbon
and Classic versions of
InDesign 2.0. This
professional page-layout
software introduces a
table-creation feature with
the ability to import
Microsoft Word and Excel
tables. Adobe also added
support for transparency,
better type tools, a new
drop-shadow palette, and support for XML. InDesign 2.0 will cost
$699 and will be available in the first quarter of 2002.

Adobe also announced Carbon and Classic versions of its vector-
drawing application. Illustrator 10.0. Version 10.0 introduces easy-to-
create line and arc segments, a new Envelope feature for fitting
editable text into objects. Photoshop-style effects, a new Mesh tool
Of s not just for gradients anymore), and new Web tools. Illustrator
10.0 will cost $399 and will be available in the fourth quarter of 2001.

Apple

Steve jobs announced pricing and availability of Mac OS 10.1. The
upgrade is free to current Mac OS X users until October 31 at Apple-
authorized stores— or as long as supplies last.

Apple also previewed AppleScript Studio, which will integrate
AppleScript with development tools, like Mac OSX’s Project Builder

and Interface Builder. Since Mac OS 10.1 supports XML (Extensible
Markup Language) and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Web
standards, AppleScript will be able to communicate with data on the
Internet. AppleScript Studio will be available by the end of 2001.

Canto

Canto and Idee Introduced a cool technology for Cumulus 5,
software for managing digital assets. The new Espion Visual Search
Option lets you search visually for an image within your collection.
That Is to say, using the actual image (not a string of text), you can
search for similar images and altered versions of that image. Espion
is currently not available for the consumer-oriented Cumulus 5
Single User Edition. It will cost $75 per user, plus $295 for the
required server, for Cumulus 5 Workgroup and Enterprise editions
and will be out for Mac OS X by the end of 2001.

Corel

Corel launched two new
packages. The Corel-branded
Graphics Suite 10 for Macintosh
includes vector-drawing app
CorelDraw 10, image editor Corel
Photo-Paint 10, and animation
tool Corel RAVE. Corel Graphics
Suite 10 will cost $569 and is
available now.

Under the Procreate line for
Mac graphics professionals, Corel introduced the next batch of nine
KPT filters, called KPT Effects, for use with Photoshop and other
programs adopting Adobe’s plug-in architecture. Effects include KPT
Ink Dropper for creating the Illusion of smoke or stains, and KPT
Ruid for adding liquid distortion that you can capture as animation.
KPT Effects will cost $199 and will be available in October 2001.

KPTs Fluid Effect liquefies Images
and lets you capture the process in
QuickTime or PICT animation.

Adobe brought 54
G4s to the show
floor for software
workshops.

Digital photographer
Stephen Johnson
shows his work,
including a haunting
1998 New York City
skyline (right).

Finding the right gift for the right price for the right person can be the For the Paranoid Freak
true nightmare before Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other Norton Internet Security (Symantec, www.symantec.com, $99)
end-of-year celebration. We’re here to help. Match the stereotype to the For those fearful of hackers and body snatchers, this
personality of the loved one you’re trying to shop for, dig up about $100, combination personal firewall, antivirus software, and Internet
and buy the stuff we suggest. Check system requirements before you buy. cookie remover will address at least the first problem.

16 MacAdd/cf DEC/01

PHOTOGRAPHY BYW.B. JONES

Mac Companies Donate to Belief Efforts

Victims and Reiief Workers Get Software, Hardware, and Monetary Help

W ithin the first week of the September ii tragedies that befell New York, Washington, D.C., and
Pennsylvania, Mac-related technology firms quietly joined the rest of America in contributing
to disaster-relief efforts. Here’s a partial list of what some companies did to help.— W/?

Adobe Systems

Adobe donated $250,000 to the Red Cross disaster
fund and raised an additional $50,000 from
employee donations, which the company matched.

Aladdin Systems

Aladdin Systems donated $1 of each online sale for
30 days to the American Red Cross.

Apple Computer

Apple donated $1 million to famiiies of rescue
workers who iost their lives and donated one iBook
to each of these families with children.

Canon

Canon donated $100,000 to the American Red
Cross, and gave hardware to the New York City
Police Department’s Crime Scene Unit for evidence
recovery, documentation, and victim identification.

ComputerWare

ComputerWare donated $25 per September
Macintosh sale to the American Red Cross.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak gave $2 million to the American Red Cross.

Handspring Foundation

Handspring donated 500 Visor Deluxe handheld
organizers and 500 Visor phones to the American
Red Cross, the New York City Police Department,
and the New York City Fire Department. Voice
Stream provided free phone service.

Microsoft

Microsoft donated $5 million in cash and $5 million
in software to various relief efforts.

Paim

Palm donated handheld organizers and wireless
networking services to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), the American Red
Cross, and the U.S. Navy.

Sony

Sony donated $3 million to the American Red
Cross and $1 million to the New York City
Public/Private Initiatives.

Thursby Software Systems

Thursby donated its online sales through
September 21 to the American Red Cross.

James Peterson (above): the mobile, musical
Mac man at the Burning Man festival (inset).

The Mobile Mac
el Bupnine Man

Art Fest Serves Up Pyrotechnics
and Mac-Driven Entertainment

T he annual Burning Man festival, held in

Nevada’s barren Black Rock Desert, is a mecca
for art, pyromaniacs, and cutting-edge technology.
Some of this chaos runs on the Mac. This year,
James Peterson, an animator from Venice Beach,
California, constructed a beat-mixing bicycle. Using
a Powerbook 1400c (wrapped in a plastic bag to
keep out the dust), a pair of old speakers, a car
battery, an amplifier, and a few parts from Radio
Shack, Peterson ran Propellerhead’s drum *n* bass
program, ReBirth ($179, www.propellerheads.se),
and Syclone Multimedia’s techno mixer,
AudioFusion TWS ($25, www.download.com), to
mix funky music while peddling around the
festivities.— /.e/gh Webber

newSTUFF

Visor Pro and Visor Neo

Handspring, www.iiandspring.com, $299 (Pro)
or $199 (Neo)

Handspring announced September 2001
availability of two new handheld organizers:
Visor Pro and Visor Neo. The Visor Pro
comes with 16MB of memory and
! rechargeable batteries. The Neo comes with
; SMB of memory and hard, translucent-
colored cases reminiscent of Apple’s Ruby
and Indigo iMacs.

Palm m12S

Palm, www.palm.com, $249

Palm’s hoping to bridge the gap between its
professional and consumer markets with the
new mi25 handheld organizer. The 5.3-ounce
device has SMB of memory, a faster
processor, support for Secure Digital (SD)
and MMC storage standards, and USB hot
syncing. Palm announced and shipped the
mi25 in September.

Adaptec, www.adaptec.com, $129

Adaptec announced September 2001
availability of a combination USB 2.0 and
FireWire PCI card. The card has four USB
ports (one internal and three external) and
three FireWire ports (two external and one
internal). DuoConnect is bundled with a
6-foot FireWire cable.

Midiman, www.mldlman.net, $349.95
In August Midiman announced availability of
the USB AudioSport Quattro, With four
channels in and four channels out, the Quattro
offers 16-bit, 44,1kHz and 48kHz sampling
rates, plus limited (only two-channel) 24-bit,
96kHz recording and playback.

Logitech, www.lpgitach.Dom, $199

In September Logitech announced the
Z-560, a four-speaker plus subwoofer set with
400 watts of power. This system is THX
certified for home theater-style audio. Its
Matrix 3D Surround Sound gives some audio
CDs the benefit of four-channel audio. It
should be available in mid-October 2001,

For IHe Rocker

Cakewalk Metro SE (Cakewalk, www.cakewalk.com, $29) You can’t wrap Bass Method 1 (eMedia, www.einediamusiD.com, $59.95) For that special
this download-only software, but it’s the easiest introduction to mulhtrack someone who keeps meaning to learn how to ptay bass guitar, eMedia’s Bass

digital and MIDI recording around. To run Metro SE, you wilt need an iMac, Method 1 CD-ROM provides over 1 00 step-by-step lessons with video

a G3, or a G4. tutorials. eMedia also sells Guitar Method 1 for the same price.

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Sexy Stuff We Can't Wait to Get Our Mitts On

ZLD15AI LCD TV

Ricoh

www.ricohzone.com

$ 1 , 299.99

T here really is no reason to leave the house now. This 15.1-inch silver
sliver is both a TV and computer monitor, with a screen resolution
of 1,024 by 768. The strangely named ZLD15AI features a built-in analog
TV tuner with 181-channel capacity, stereo TV sound, and a slew of
connectors for hooking up to computers, DVD players, and VCRs. Going
outside is, like, so overrated.— A//?

A TV and computer monitor in one—
that’s the way, uh huh uh huh, we like it.

Digital cameras that surf the
Web— such an exciting concept that the
RDC-i700 is taking the news lying down.

N o, it didn’t fall over. The Ricoh RDC-1700 digital camera lies flat and
has a 3.5-inch LCD display that pops upward for viewing and editing
images with a stylus. But the hardware isn’t the only unusual feature of
this 3X optical zoom camera. The RDC-i7oo is one of the First Internet-
ready digital cameras to hit the U.S. market. It comes complete with a
minibrowser for Web surfing and memory for emailing your pix directly
from the camera (Ricoh sells the modems separately). Like most
multifunction gadgets, this one’s not perfect. Some of the data-
managementand networking features are currently Windows only,— A//?

RDC-i700

Zenith

www.zenith.com

$ 1 , 299.95

nml

irtliBrowser
1.5.4 on
Tlie Disc.

Sharaware Pick of llie Mali

EarthBrowser

1.5.4

PRICE: $19.95 (download), $29.95
URL: www.earthbrowser.com

(CD-ROM)

F asten your seatbelt and get ready for takeoff with Lunar Software’s
EarthBrowser 1,5.4. a 3^ model of Earth that lets you explore our

planet’s diverse climates and geographies from the safety ofyour desk chair.

Check out real-time weather conditions and five-day forecasts for over 450
cities around the globe. Find hourly updates of earthquake locations and
magnitudes, and get the latest information on volcanic eruptions.

The newest version of EarthBrowser contains over 300 worldwide Web-cam
images, which update daily, sometimes even by the minute. Additional features
include hourly updates of cloud-cover satellite images, a grid showing latitude and
longitude, and day-to-night shadows. EarthBrowser 1.5.4 is available for Mac OS
8.1 and later, including Mac OS X.

There is a free version of EarthBrowser, but paying the shareware fee gives you
high-resolution maps and zooming capabilities 25 times the resolution of the
demo. We think it’s worth the price.— W/r/fney Hess

Looks like sunny skies ahead in San Francisco. Clicking the
country flag brings you to The World Factbook from the CIA.

HOUDAY

SHOPiy

For the Artist

Graphire2 (WaGom, www, wacom.com, $99.95) This pen, tablet, and
mouse combo fs the best value for art hobbyists looking td tinker with
drawing and photo-editing apps. It comes bundled with Corel’s Painter
Classic and Adobe’s Photoshop LE; (See our review, this issue, p57J

Photo-Objects 50,000 Volume II (Hemera Tachnotogies,
www.hemera.com, $99.99) With 50,000 32-blt images, your
favorite artist wilt have a wealth of photographic images for
graphics, Web, presentation, and word-processing programs.

18 MacAdcBct DEC/01

PHOTIJGFWPH

INthOSTlIDIO with Wild Brain

Star-Studded Animation for the Movie Rat Race

W hen San Francisco-based animation studio Wild Brain

(www.wildbrain.com) created the opening credits for Paramount
Pictures’ Rat Race, it faced two constraints: a $200,000 budget (modest
by Hollywood standards) and a dearth of photo resources to showcase
the movie’s all-star cast, which Included Whoopi Goldberg, John Cleese,
and Cuba Gooding Jr. So Wild Brain’s team of seven JVlac artists turned to ten
G4S to create a 3.5-minute animation that reflected the offbeat comedy
(about high-rolling gamblers betting on a six-person race to recover $2 million)
while retaining a Hollywood feel. We talked to Wild Brain director Julia Tortolani
and technical director Eric Schweickert to find out how they did it— NR
Wild Brain created this basic Wayne Knight puppet
in Photoshop for animation in After Effects.

(From left to right) Wild Brain director Juiia Tortoiani,
technicai director Eric Schweickert, and Photoshop
artist Kevin Beil can tell you that animating comedy is
serious business.

Ceiebrity Puppets

At the heart of the Rat Race opener are 13
digital puppets of the movie’s celebrity cast.
The puppets are photo-collage caricatures,
which hinge at the joints to give them a
playful yet smooth movement as they run,
drop, and swing along the title credits.

The animated puppets display a wide
array of poses and gestures, which artists
painstakingly created in Photoshop. Wild
Brain artists took just four photographs
of Whoopi Goldberg and, by tweaking
her eyebrows, eyeballs, and mouth pixel
by pixel, gave her about 12 different
facial expressions.

Celebrity Bodies

Surprisingly, the puppets’ bodies were not
always those of the actual celebs but
occasionally the clothing and body parts of
the Wild Brain staff. It’s not that the stars
weren’t attractive; it was that Wild Brain
didn’t have enough photography to animate
the stars properly with their own bodies.

For example, Tortolani photographed

Schweickert, who put on a delivery uniform
and stood in as Wayne Knight’s body. Wild
Brain took hundreds of photographs of
hands, feet, torsos, and legs and literally built
the characters one piece at a time, creating
complex Photoshop files, which sometimes
required up to 45 layers.

The Animation

Once Wild Brain completed the puppets, the
artists put the animation together in After
Effects 5.0, which rendered out the 4,000-
plus frames to looGB of Cineon files, a format
required to output to film. During the project,
Wild Brain chose to upgrade from After
Effects 4.1 to After Effects 5.0 for two main
reasons: Rrst, Version 5.0 offers better layer
parenting, which defines a parent-child
hierarchy between layers and nested
composites to save a great deal of time when
animating the hundreds of layers in a
character’s library of body parts. Second,

Wild Brain liked version 5’s 3D cameras,
which permitted creation of true z-space (3D)
depth and lighting.

To the left of
John Cleese Is
Paramount’s live-
action shot. To the
right Is Wild Brain’s
digitally constructed
scene. Gan you tell
the difference?

The Transition

The hardest part of the project was building
what you can’t see: the seamless transition
between Wild Brain’s animation and the
actual live-action shots of the Paramount
movie. Wild Brain needed to match the color
and blend the movement of their digital
animation footage with the live-action film
footage of the actors running around a movie
set. Forthis, Wild Brain used After Effects 5.0’s
new 16-bit color support. To match color. Wild
Brain had the film frames of the actual movie
scanned as lo-bit Cineon files, which the
artists imported into After Effects. Once in
After Effect’s 16-bit color space, artists
matched character and background colors
to the film’s color and then rendered the
animation out to Cineon files.

Favorite Tools

Hardware

• Dual-processor Power Mac G4/450, Mac OS
9,0, 1GB RAM, 20GB Internal hard disk space

• Nikon Coolpix 990

(Nikon, www.nlkon.com, $799)

• 60GB LaCie External FireWire drive
(LaCie, www.lacie.com, $299)

• Apple Cinema Display

(Apple, www.apple.com, $2,499)

Software

• Photoshop 6 (Adobe, www.adobe.com, $609)

• After Effects 5 Production Bundle
(Adobe, www.adobe.com, $1,499)

• Illustrator 8 (Adobe, www.adobe.com,

$399 for version 10)

For the Kid

Mia: Just in Time (Xutoka Interactive, www.kulol(axam,

$19.95) In this edutainment title, Mia uses time travel and
brainpower to keep her house from burning down, Sonafide kids
{of all ages) will be cheering for Mia by the end.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Kids Edition (Disney Interactive,
wvirw.disneyinteraGtive.Gom, $19.93) This is the ultimate in pop-cuiture fluff for kids ages 8
to 13, with questions about Dawson's Creek and the Backstreet Boys. Hey, the little tykes
can't a/ways be watching public television.

DEC/01 MacAdd/cf|19

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF WILD BRAIN

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I'm a model. Do you know^ what I mean?

fhe HUde WirM of Cfllw

by Narasu Rebbaprogada

A ll whites are not the same. The same goes for blacks, blues, because they use varying color models, the strangely named

greens, and purples. The colors in your digital photography, systems of color classification and creation. Let us introduce you to

Web graphics, and printed designs are composed differently a few color models, what they are, and when you should use them.

WEB^SAFE

RGB

The RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color model lights up video images and graphics
displayed on monitors. Every image is composed of a value (1 to 255) of the
three colors. This color model is additive— this means red, blue, and green
mixed at their maximum values (255) emit their greatest light, which is white.
Who uses it? Web designers. The gamut (range of colors) of colors in RGB is
greater than in CMYK, so you should create Web images in RGB to take
advantage of the full range of colors. When you convert RGB images to CMYK,
you will lose extra RGB data, and some colors will appear duller.

Grayscale

This model contains 256 shades of gray. Shade 0 is black, and shade
255 is white.

Who uses It? People who want to create black-and-white images. Duh...

Duotone

Traditionally, a duotone is a black-and-white photograph printed using black plus
one additional ink color. In desktop publishing, if s a grayscale image enhanced
with an additional color.

Who uses It? Designers and photographers looking for a richer tone than
grayscale can provide. Many printer inks can’t accurately represent all 256
shades of gray. Adding the second color gives you a richer tone.

CMYK

This is the color model you use to create a printed page. With CMYK (Cyan
Magenta Yellow and blacK), every image is composed of varying percentages
(0 to 100) of the four colors. This color model is subtractive, which means that
when you mix cyan, magenta, yellow, and black together on paper at 1 00
percent, they absorb light and appear black.

Who uses It? Print designers. When printing to inkjet or professional-level
printers, you— or your printer’s driver software— must be able to separate your
graphics into these four colors.

Pantone

The Pantone Matching System is a system for choosing and precisely
controlling ink colors. Designers pick numerically designated colors from a
fan-shaped book of swatches, which show exactly how the colors will print on
coated and uncoated paper stocks.

Who uses It? Designers who create corporate logos and other graphics that
must look exactly the same when printed on different media.

Web-Safe Celors

Web-safe colors are a set of 21 6 RGB colors that look the same when displayed
on different platforms and different browsers.

Who uses It? Web designers who want to ensure that their graphics won’t look
dithered, a fuzzy look created when a monitor tries to approximate a color by
mixing dots of two other colors.

20 fAoc Addict DEC/0}

Note: We simulated all color models in CMYK, required by MacAddict’s printing process.

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S o you’ve got your favorite Mac on your desk. More likely, you’ve
got some Mac on your desk, but unless you have unlimited
funds, chances are you can’t afford to replace it every time Steve
Jobs decides to revamp the entire product line. No matter how much
you want one — and how many hints you drop to your rich Uncle Bill—
an 800MHz Dual-processor G4 just isn’t in your future.

But that doesn’t mean faster performance isn’t in your future. Your
Mac should blast off at lightning-fast speeds every time you click that
mouse. You shouldn’t have to wait for your Mac — it should wait for
you. And with the right enhancements, it will. From the smartest
hardware upgrades to the sneakiest software tweaks, we tell you how
to get the best performance possible from your Mac. Anyway, you
didn’t rea/Zy want that Dual 800, did you?

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22 MacAddict DEC/01

Rnd Graphic
Converter 4.0.9
PPG, TinkerTooI
isi, an Adobe
Photoshop 6.0
tryout, a Launch
Bar 3.0 demo,
and Xoptimize
0.42 on The Disc.

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You can optimize the software that runs on your machine all you want, but the
crux of the matter is that your hardware ultimately sets a limit on what you can
do with your Mac (assuming you aren’t typing with your nose, that is).

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You can swap in faster processors on most Macs, with
the exception of the newest laptops and G4S. Apple
itself doesn’t offer processor upgrades, but companies
like Sonnet Technologies (www.sonnettech.com),
PowerLogix (www.powerlogix.com), and XLR8
(www.xlr8.com) do.

Bear in mind, though, that the type of motherboard
you have limits your Mac’s bus speed. Therefore, if you
upgrade your G3 to a 500MHz G4 processor, it won’t run
as fast as, say, a 500MHz G4 tower that came straight
from the factory. The difference lies in the computer’s
bus. Data goes from system memory to the processor
and back to memory again via the bus. If your machine
has a maximum bus speed of 66MHz, it can’t perform
this function as fast as Apple’s latest machines— those
models’ busses run at 133MHz.

Upgrade cards like this one from Sonnet
can make your Mac run a little more like
that 867MHz G4 you’re coveting.

A dual-processor
upgrade card
like this XLR8 one
can make a big
difference if you’re

running Mac OS X.

To 63 oi> 64? That is the Question

For most G3 machines, you can choose either a faster G3 or a G4 upgrade. A G3 is
fine for a lot of folks, but there are good reasons to consider a G4. For instance, the G4
has an on-chip Aitivec coprocessor (also called the Velocity Engine). This extra power
allows the machine to execute as many as four floating-point calculations in a single
cycle, whereas most processors can only perform one at a time. These calculations
are especially important for voice, graphics, and video applications. More and more
apps take advantage of the Aitivec processor these days— Photoshop, Final Cut Pro,
and DVD Studio Pro, to name a few. Also, Apple is touting Mac OS X as optimized for
the G4 processor.

Time to Dual?

Companies like Sonnet and XLR8 offer dual-processor upgrades— but whether you
should buy one of these lovelies comes down to what you do with your computer. Mac
OS 9 supports just one processor, so the only time your Mac will utilize the second
processor is when you are running an application specifically designed to support
multiprocessors, such as certain Adobe Photoshop filters and Apple Final Cut Pro.

With Mac OS X, the rules are different. Carbon or Cocoa apps written to support Mac
OS X automatically take advantage of dual processors. Still, if all you’re doing is
sending emails, surfing the Web, and playing a few games (not that
there’s anything wrong with that), you may not notice a
huge speed bump with a dual-
processor upgrade under OS X.

The introduction of Mac OS X with its Unix-based roots makes RAM
more important than ever. As a general rule, the more RAM you have,
the faster a Unix-based machine will run. That’s because the more
RAM you have, the more data your Mac can cache. RAM makes an
even bigger difference in a server-type environment, where you’re
running one application that serves many simultaneous requests.

The minimum requirements for Mac OS X are 128MB of RAM,
though you’ll want at least 256MB to realize the full potential of this
system, especially if you’re running applications in Classic (Mac OS
X’s environment for running OS 9 programs under OS X). Online RAM
vendors are the best place to buy memory because they can keep up
with the almost daily changes in today’s RAM market. There are many
great online RAM sellers, Including Memory To Go (www.memorytogo
.com), Ramjet (www.ramjet.com), and MemoryX (www.memoryx.net),

to name just a few. Bottom line: Unless you’ve
got an insane amount of RAM already, buy
more, especially If you’re running Mac
OS X. It’s almost as good an
investment as a Roth IRA.

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DEC/01

Most Macs come with respectably fast drives, so there’s no reason to
replace or add a drive unless you simply need more storage space. If
you do add a drive to your Mac, though, you might as well get a
speedy one.

Rrst, choose between adding a drive inside your Mac, or connecting
one to your RreWire port externally (that is, if you have RreWire). For
internal drives, your options are wide open, since Macs now use the
same IDE drives that Wintel machines do. Look for drives from reputable
manufacturers like Western Digital (www.westerndigital.com), IBM
(www.storage.ibm.com/hdd), and Seagate (www.seagate.com).

An external RreWire drive is worth considering. You can move it
from Mac to Mac, and it doesn’t take a
screwdriver to install. Look for
drives that use the Oxford 911
chip set. This is a second-
generation chip set that
removes the
performance
bottlenecks
found in

most other RreWire drives, resulting in faster access to your data. You
can find out if a drive uses the Oxford 911 chip set by looking at the
technical specifications listed on the manufacturer’s Web site or by
asking the company directly. For external hard drives, vendors such as
Firewire Direct (www.firewlredirect.com) and VST Technologies
(www.vsttech.com) are good places to check.

Believe it or not, hard drives vary greatly in speed. The general rule
to follow is that the newer the drive, the faster it is. Be aware that
although manufacturers often measure hard drive performance in
rotational speed (5,400 RPM, 7,200 RPM), a faster RPM doesn’t
necessarily mean faster speeds in day-to-day usage. Rotational speeds
are more important with video- and audio-editing apps, where you’re
moving large chunks of data on and off the drive. Generally, a drive
with a faster RPM can sustain a faster data-transfer rate over a long
period of time. But unless you are
moving huge chunks of data around,
focus on the access time
(measured in milliseconds)—
that is, the time it takes the

drive to locate a specific
piece of data. Look for
drives with access
times of 9ms
or less.

A new FireWire hard drive
provides more storage
space and can offer
speedy performance.

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Overclocking is the somewhat illicit process of making your Mac run
faster than Apple designed it to. This usually involves changing
settings on the motherboard, and sometimes even means soldering
on or removing components. While some Macs are easier to overclock
than others, you can overclock most of them (depending on how
willing you are to try untested, risky techniques!). Below we point out
several Web resources that tell you how to overclock different models.
Bear in mind that neither we nor the authors of these Web sites
guarantee that these techniques will work. Overclocking will certainly
void your warranties with Apple and all the related hardware vendors,
including CPU upgrade card and RAM manufacturers. Now that we’ve
covered our butts, read on.

G3 Check out "10 Things You Don’t Know How to Do (and Probably
Shouldn’t)” on p26 of our April 2001 issue.

867MHz G4 Some enterprising soul has found a way to speed a
867MHz G4 to over iGHz. Check out www.bekkoame.ne.jp/-t-
imai/g4dei.html for more information.

2001 iBook The folks at Accelerate Your Mac (www.xlr8yourmac.com)
recently published an article on overclocking the latest iBook. Read
about it at www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/ibook_2001_overclock
/ibook_2ooi_overclock.html.

iMac This all-in-one Mac has always been a tough machine to
overclock, but there are ways. If you’re game to give it a try, checkout

We overciocked this 400MHz G3 to run at 450MHz by changing around the
jumper settings, impressive, eh?

www.thellttlemacshop.com/imac/imacmodi.html.You should also
check out the Clock Chipping page at http://socrates.berkeley.edu
/-schrier/mhz.html for general advice on overclocking. It offers
links to information about nearly every type of Mac and shows
you what it takes (aside from nerves of steel) to make the
required modifications.

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Even though Apple is trying to convert the masses to Mac OS X, for now many of us are sticking
with the trusty Mac OS 9, thanks very much. Since the original Mac OS has been around since
1 984, there’s no shortage of ways to optimize your system for speed. If you’re a Mac veteran,
you probably know most of these tricks, but you still might learn a thing or two.

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The dreaded Extensions folder— it’s the one place on the Mac where no
sane soul ever wants to venture. Yet one of the most effective ways of
speeding up your Mac is to trim down your extensions. The Mac OS ships
with quite a few extra ones that support features of Mac OS 9 most of us
don’t use regularly. Hello? Does anyone actually use Speech Manager?

Some good control panels and extensions to target for disabling are:

Rnd By Content, Rnd By Content Indexing Scheduler, Speech, Speech
Manager, Speech Recognition, iomega Extension (unless you’re running a
Zip, Jaz, or other Iomega drive), Web Sharing, and Web Sharing Extension.

To turn off extensions, use either the Extensions Manager control panel or
Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher ($79.95, www.casadyg.com).

With Conflict Catcher, you can manage multiple sets of extensions easily.

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In many ways, the Rnderis like the man behind the curtain in The
Wizard of Oz—iVs always running, no matter what you’re doing, but you
never notice its presence. Despite its invisibility, the Rnder’s
performance can definitely affect your Mac’s speed.

Disable Folder Size Calculations One feature that can tie up the
Rnder is its ability to calculate folder sizes. That’s why it’s best to turn
on this feature only when you need to. From the Rnder, go to Edit and
choose Preferences. Go to the Views tab and choose List from the pull-
down menu; you’ll see a check box for Calculate Folder Sizes. Uncheck
that box to tell the Rnder not to calculate folder sizes by default. If you
need to check the size of a specific folder, select the folder, and press
Command -1 for info.

Then read the size
info that appears in
the dialog box.

Turning off the Finder’s
Calculate Folder Sizes
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Mac snappier by
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Turn Off Desktop Pictures As much as we all like staring at pictures
of fuzzy bunnies, cascading waterfalls, or Madonna’s midriff on our
desktop, custom pictures do slow down your machine, making it less
snappy when drawing windows. Just for kicks, try disabling your
desktop picture and see if it makes a worthwhile difference in speed. If
it does, but your desktop entertainment makes you happier than
popping Prozac, at least make sure it fits your screen resolution so the
Mac doesn’t have to stretch or shrink the image every time it loads.
Apps like Lemke Software’s Graphic Converter ($30, www.lemkesoft
.com) or Photoshop ($609, www.adobe.com) make resizing images
simple. Also, in the Appearance control panel select Center On Screen
(instead of Place Automatically). This option keeps the image at its
normal size, whereas Place Automatically often forces the system
to stretch
the picture.

Setting the
Appearance
control panel
to Center On
Screen keeps
the processor
from having to
redraw the
background
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Apple recently released Mac OS 9.2.1, and if your Mac can run it (it only
runs on Macs certified to run Mac OS X), it is in your best interest to
upgrade. Not only is it more stable than previous releases of Mac OS 9, but
it also boots a lot faster (our 400MHz PowerBook G3 Pismo booted twice
as fast as in Mac OS 9.1!). You can download the update from Apple’s Web
site (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=i2003o). The
software is free, but Apple wants your soul (aka your personal info) before
it will allow you to grab the download.

Upgrading to Mac OS 9.2.1 shouM result in increased speed
and stability.

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Lefs face it: Mac OS 9 has a strange (some might say stupid) way of
managing memory. Still, you can use this stupidity to your advantage
by playing with memory settings.

Set Application Memory One of the strangest parts of Mac OS 9
is the feet that users can control how much memory a specific
application gets at any one time. Mac OS 9 then sets aside that chunk
of memory as users launch each application. If an application only
needs 2MB of RAM, but you’ve set it to use 100MB, it will reserve that
looMB of RAM when it runs and will keep other applications from
using the other 98MB— kinda like a two-year-old who won’t let anyone
else touch his toy truck even when he’s not playing with it.

Although you can’t fix the idiocy of Mac OS 9, you can allocate
memory more accurately. Rrst, open the application in question. From
the Rnder, go to the Apple menu, and choose About This Computer.
That will bring up a list of all the applications running on your Mac. Go
to the Help menu and choose Show Balloons. Now float the mouse
cursor over the bar graphs to the right of each application to see how
much of its allocated RAM the application is actually using.

Now if s time to fix your memory allocation. Quit the application,
find its icon (not its alias), highlight it, and navigate to the Rle menu,
then Get Info and Memory. In the resulting screen, you should see
three memory sizes listed. The first is Suggested Size. This Is what the
author of the software suggests as Its optimal preferred RAM setting.
The second item listed is Minimum Size. If the app doesn’t find at least

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Get detailed information about the memory your apps are hogging. We knew
there was some useful reason for Balloon Help’s existence.

this much RAM available, it will refuse to launch. The last setting is
Preferred Size— this is the maximum amount the system will allocate,
assuming the RAM is available. This is the number you’ll want to
adjust. As a general rule, email programs and Web browsers should
benefit from increased RAM (especially if you have lots of messages
and bookmarks to manage). Design applications like Photoshop and
PageMaker will use just about as much RAM as you can give them.
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memory la turned on In the Memory control panel.

Avoid Using Virtual Memory virtual memory allows your computer
to tap available space on your hard drive in lieu of using RAM to store
data. In theory, the computer intelligently manages the contents of
RAM, swapping out unused or unneeded bits to the hard drive and
freeing up RAM for more Immediate concerns. In more modern
operating systems (like Mac OSX and even laterversions of Windows),
virtual memory is a core component that can dramatically Improve
performance, allowing the computer to manage memory at peak
efficiency. However, with Mac OS 9, virtual memory is not part of the
core OS and is best avoided unless you simply don’t have enough RAM
to handle necessary tasks. In this case, turn on virtual memory (in the
Memory control
panel)— then go
out and buy
some RAM so
you can turn off
virtual memory
for good.

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memory to
make Mac OS 9
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There are a few ways to give your Mac a nice adrenaline shot when booting up.

Try Startup Doubler Marc Molni’s startup Doubler shareware ($20, www.marcmoini
.com/StartupDoubler.html) builds a large cache of all the data required to load your
extensions at startup. When your computer starts up again, it reads this data from the
cache instead of from each individual extension. If you have lots of extensions and/or a
slower Mac, this software can greatly reduce your startup time. However, if you constantly
change your extension sets, Startup Doubler has to reconfigure itself each time you alter
them and may not help much.

Disable Memory Checks Each time your Mac starts up, it checks your RAM to make sure
everything’s kosher. To save time, turn off these tests by holding down Command and
Option as you open the Memory control panel. At the bottom, select the Off button under
Startup Memory Tests. (Be aware that if you do this, your Mac won’t recognize bad memory.)

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If you’re ready to install Mac OS X (or maybe you already have), your computing life is going
to change in many ways. OS X still looks like a Mac, kinda. It still acts like a Mac, kinda. But
underneath is Unix, kinda. One thing is for certain— Mac OS X (at least for now) doesn’t feel
as fast as Mac OS 9. Still, you can keep OS X percolating at respectable speeds.

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The first thing you should do if you want to speed up Mac OS X is
upgrade to OS lo.i. We installed Mac OS lo.i and indeed this upgrade
does yield perkier system performance, including faster application
launches, a speedier Finder, and more impressive startup times (not to

mention that OS lo.i is just much cooler). Visitwww.apple.com
/macosx/uptodate for instructions on how and where you can obtain
Mac OS 10.1. Then run, don’t walk, to the nearest store to get this
update. Now go!

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Mac OS X, though less than a year old, already has a vast library of
shareware available— and much of it is designed with your need for
speed in mind. Besides reading our shareware recommendations
below, we suggest that you keep an eye on sites like VersionTracker
(www.versiontracker.com/macosx) to see what new stuff comes out
every day.

TurboMBm Mac OS X manages memory much differently (and much
better) than Mac OS 9 ever did. One notable difference is OSX’s ability
to manage memory dynamically by moving applications around and
freeing up space as needed. But some still feel Mac OS X doesn’t take
full advantage of this capability, and thankfully at least one of those
folks is a talented programmer. Mac Unicorn Software’s TurboMem
(free, www.macunicorn.com/turbomem) constantly monitors and
reorganizes the contents of RAM as you work. It can also accelerate
specific applications by reading all related data into RAM so the app
doesn’t have to access the hard disk so often. Our tests showed that
TurboMem mostly helped out when running Classic.

TurboMem wil! monitor your system and optimize memory usage by reclaiming
RAM from applications that aren’t using it at that moment.

LaunchBar objective Development’s very useful Launch Bar ($19.95,
www.obdev.at/products/launchbar) takes inventory of all of the
programs on your hard disk and then allows you to launch them by
typing just the first few letters of the program’s name. Not exactly Mac-
like, but boy, can it speed up your search for an application you need
to run! LaunchBar always runs in the background— all you have to do is
press Command and Space (or another key sequence you choose),
then begin typing the name of a program. It then displays a list of
applications that match the characters you typed. Very cool.

LaunchBar pops out
from underneath your
menu bar and allows
you to launch an
app by typing a few
characters of its name.

TinkerTOOl This is most definitely a nerd tool, which enhances our
appreciation of it.TinkerTool, from Marcel BresinkSoftware-Systeme
(free, www.bresink.de/osc/T 1 nkerTooLhtml), allows you to change a
multitude of otherwise unavailable options that speed up Mac OS X.

The biggest speed gain TinkerTool offers is the ability to alter which
fonts the system smooths out. By default, Mac OS X smooths all fonts
by antialiasing them. By setting TinkerTool to smooth only fonts larger
than a certain size (12 points, for example), you limit the amount of
time Mac OS X spends antialiasing fonts too small to benefit from the
effect. TinkerTool also lets you change the default fonts of the system,
make the Terminal application transparent, and access a third
minimize effect called Suck In, a combination of Genie and Scale.

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There are many ways to increase the performance of the Rnder and
Dock-some involve actual speed adjustments, and others are
shortcuts that make you more productive while working in OSX.

• Every time you open a Rnder or hard drive window, you probably need
to resize the window or adjust the view to suit your preferences. How
about a quick way to make those changes stick? Just click the Rnder
icon in the Dock or double-click your hard disk icon, make the view and
size changes you want, and then immediately close the window. The
system should now remember these settings for the futurel

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the Dock, set the window the way you like it, and close it.

• Mac OS 10.1 gives you the ability to alter the way the system
minimizes windows when sending them to the Dock. The default effect
is called Genie, and Impressive though it is the first 500 times, it does
slow you down while you wait for windows to finish slipping into the
Dock. The Scale effect, while not as visually appealing, is much faster.
To switch to Scale, Control-click the line F
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Minimize Using Scale Effect.

Change the way windows minimize
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With Its Unix roots, OS X has inherited a command line that has more
than 30 years of history, resulting in literally thousands of different
tools you can use to monitor and adjust your system’s performance.
Mac OSX includes an application called Terminal (In the Utilities folder
located inside the Applications folder), which allows you to access the
command line.

Prebinding Mac os X applications consist of a series of components,
Including libraries. When you run an application, OS X has to gather all
of the proper libraries, pull them together, and then launch the
program. This process takes time since the operating system stores
libraries in many different places. Prebinding finds the libraries each
application requires and stores them with that app to shorten its
launching time. Most installers and Mac OSX updates will perform this
process foryou, but sometimes applications slip through the cracks.
Thaf s why performing prebinding every few weeks is a wise idea. In
the command line, type sudo updatejprebinding -root /.

You will then need to enter your password. You must log In as an
administrator (or root) to run prebinding. But rather than logout and
relog in as root, you can use the sudo command to accomplish the
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Prebinding can speed an application’s launch by grouping afi the necessary
components together.

• If you have lots of
applications and
windows open, you can
hide them all and just
bring one application to
the front with a single
click, just hold down
Command and Option;
in the Dock, click the
icon of the application
you want to view.

if you’ve got a cluttered
desktop (top), hold down
Command and Option, click
the Finder in the Dock, and
you’ll achieve desktop
nirvana (right).

• To bring a new application to the front while hiding the last
application you were working in, hold down Option and click the Dock
icon for the application you want to view. Since Mac OS X allows
windows from multiple applications to interleave (so you can have a
TextEdit document sitting between two Internet Explorer windows even
when IE is active), this is a handy way of bringing all the windows for
one application to the front. This trick only works in Mac OS 10.1.

Xoptimize (free, http://third.codefab.com/unsupported) can
perform prebinding foryou. This Aqua-based application (that is, it
doesn’t use the command line) by CodeFab isn’t pretty, but some folks
may find it a more comfortable alternative.

Top One of the most popular command-line tools. Top, allows you to
see which of your running applications are hogging valuable processor
time. Open Terminal and type top . You’ll get a regularly updated list
of applications. If you want to tell Top to list processor-hungry
applications first, quit it by typing q, then type top -u and press
Return. While Top won’t speed up your system on its own. It does give
you some insight Into how your system runs and which applications
drain the processor most. You can use this data to decide which
programs you can safely run all the time and which you should quit
when you’re done to free up the processor.

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10 tmrcent, ^ur system will feel sluggish and unresponsive.

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Adobe Photoshop Is one of the most important programs for many
Mac users, but that doesn’t give it the right to take its sweet time
running a Gaussian Blur. Fortunately, you can help Photoshop along.

• Disable virtual memory. Photoshop does much better managing
swap space on its own.

• Allocate as much physical RAM as you can spare to Photoshop
(see “Don’t Forget Memory,” P27). That will get Photoshop running
fairly efficiently.

• If you have a second hard drive in your machine, Photoshop will take
advantage of it. In Photoshop 6, go to the Edit menu and select

Preferences, then Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks. In the Rrst pop-up menu,
set the scratch disk to a hard disk other than the startup volume. Now
just sit back and watch
Photoshop zip through
tasks such as filters
and color alterations.

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disk setting to use more
than one disk allows
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Internet Explorer 5 is a fairly solid browser, but it has some quirks.
Luckily, you can speed up its performance with little effort.

• Quit and relaunch the browser every few hours. Overtime, Explorer
holds more information in RAM than it should, and it begins to slow
down, making browsing a painful experience. Quitting and relaunching
Explorer clears out all of the images and URLs stored in RAM and gives
the app a fresh start.

• Try not to leave more than one browser window open for long periods
of time. Explorer spends a lot of time managing the data in open
windows (even once they’re finished drawing, so closing unneeded
windows will give you back some juice.

• If you are one of the lucky ducks who’s got a broadband connection,
you don’t need to use Explorer’s disk cache anymore (this is true of

Netscape as well). The computer spends more time saving and
retrieving images from your disk cache than it does if it just downloads
images each time you visit a site. To head off the problem, go to the
Edit menu and select Preferences. In the Advanced section, set your
cache size to 0.

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This will tell the browser to retrieve documents from the Web with each
page view, reducing traffic to and from the disk.

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No question about it: Microsoft has spent a great deal of time and
effort ensuring that the Mac flavor of Microsoft Office runs as efficiently
as possibly. Nevertheless, Word still needs some help. Sure, maybe
these are no-brainers, but can’t we all use a reminder once in a while?

• Use the Normal view whenever possible. Word offers many ways of
viewing your documents while editing them. Page Layout view allows
you to see words and images in your document exactly as they will
appear on the page, but it can slow you down, especially if you’re
scrolling through a document. Go to Word’s View menu and choose
Normal. Your document won’t look as pretty, but you will notice a
boost in speed.

By setting Word to the Normal
view, you save some processor
cycles and increase your scrolling
speed throughout your document

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fast as it sounds. Word has two ways of saving a document. Normal
replaces the entire contents of the existing document every time you
save. Fast Save merely appends the changes you’ve made to the
document, but leaves all of your old (and deleted) text in the file. If
you’ve been working on a file for some time. Fast Saves can make
saving and opening files take longer, since Word has to parse through
the entire file to find out what should stay and what should go. In Word
2001, go to the Edit menu, choose Preferences, and go to the Save tab.
Uncheck the Allow Fast
Saves box.

Disabling Fast Saves in
Word will decrease file
sizes and potentially save
time spent opening and
closing your documents.

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of AppleScript

B efore we show you how to automate tasks in apps like Word,
FileMaker, and Illustrator it’s important foryou to understand
exactly what AppleScript is and how It works.

What Is AppleScript?

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Seven years ago, Apple transformed the mechanism that allows
programs to respond to mouse clicks and keyboard commands—
extending its powers so that it could respond to instructions sent from
other apps. For example, using this mechanism, an installer could tell
other applications to quit to keep them from interfering during an
installation. Apple also created AppleScript, a programming language
that users can employ to send instructions to applications. (AppleScript
isn’t the only such language, but it’s the most commonly used because
it comes free with your Mac’s operating system.)

Say, for example, you want to create a complicated geometric figure
In Illustrator— a figure that’s easier to describe mathematically than to
draw. If you write a script that contains the description of the figure you
want to create, Illustrator can receive those instructions and create the

figure (we’ll show you how this is done in “Seeing Stars in Illustrator,”
P39). However, AppleScript instructions are frequently application
specific, so you couldn’t apply the same script in Photoshop.

This aspect of AppleScript is its biggest weakness— you can only
use AppleScript to do as much as a particular application’s developers
let you. Adobe Photoshop, for example, doesn’t have much built-in
support for AppleScript, so you can’t write very many scripts without a
third-party tool like PhotoScripter. By contrast, you can do a lot of
scripting in QuarkXPress— if you can perform some/tomroand in XPress
with your mouse, it’s a fair bet that you can do it w.lth AppleScript. In
fact, one perk that QuarkXPress 5 (in beta as of prdis time) will offer is
inclusion of 35 prewritten AppleScripts and an easy way to run them
from within the pragrarh.. ' j

The Script Editor

The key application for writing AppleScripts is the Script Editor, whicKfcoqies with your Mac’s
operating system (in the AppleScript folder within the Apple Extras folder). Wb^en you run the
Script Editor, you’ll see a window like the one below (this is one of the scripts included with Mac
OS 10.1). OS 10.1 comes with even more scripts than Mac OS 9 did, from Finder to Sherlock to
Mail scripts. Here’s what each of the windows and buttons does. \

-record Button

Some applications, such as the
Findec let you record actions—that
means if you click the Record button
proceed with an action, the app
generates a script in the Script Editor
to mimic that action. You probably
need to edit any script you generate
this way since most applications
tend to eidier save too many
Instructions (right down to including
irrelevant info such as window
movements) or miss steps.

Description Area

You can type anything you want here— :
verses from Walt Whitman poems, love '
notes—but most people use this space
to describe what the script does. 1

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copy the result as list to {the text_to_trlm, the button-pressed}
if the text-to-trim is not then exit repeat
^nd repeat

set the character-count to the number of characters of the text-to-trl m
iet the Item-list to list folder source-folder without invisibles
set source-folder to source-folder as string
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in the item-list
set this-item to item i of the Item-1 1st
set this-ltem to (source-folder & thls-item) as alias
set this-info to info for this-ltem
if folder of this-info is true then

set the current-name to the name of thIs-info
if the button-pressed is "Trim Start” then

if the current-name begins with the text-to-trim then

set the new-name to (characters (the character^ount + 1 ) thru - 1
set-jtem-name(this-item, new-name)

Check Syntax Button

Click this button to make sure you entered
your script correctly, without actually
running It

Run Button

Click this button to
activate your scripts.

Script Area

Type your script here.

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Each application’s dictionary will serve as your primary reference when
you’re trying to control the app through scripts.

AppleScript consists of two basic pieces; the core language, which is the same ^
regardless of which application youVe scripting, and appil cation commands,
which vary from program to program. Unfortunately, the core language doesn’t
do much—it lets you executelnstructions repeatedly, store Information, and do
other basic housekeepi ng, but you can’t use it to actually write fi !es or present
dialog boxes. V ; ,

Since each application responds to a unique s^t of AppleScript c^mmabds,
you need to find out what commands it uses;’ Luckily for you, Apple bqflt |
dictionaries into AppleScript. Choose Open dictionary from the File mpnu i|i the
Script Editor, then select the application for which you want to write a script
A list of the commands and data types youripplication understands will *
appear. Dictionaries often break up commands into suites, which include
standard formats for commands issued to similar applications. For example, the
text suite might provide AppleScript with definitions that would let it handle text
formatting. That means a similar set of commands handles text formatting for,
say. Illustrator and Word. Be careful, though— although the suites generally
make scripting easier, you still run into cases where different applications
implement the same concepts in subtly different ways.

start Scripting!

W hen it’s time to begin writing your own

scripts, here are a few tips to keep in mind.

Borrow an Existing Script Even the most
experienced programmers (in fact, part/cularly the
most experienced programmersO aren't averse to
borrowing a bit of code to make their jobs easier.

Check the archives full of AppleScripts (www
.macscrlpter.net and www.apple.com/applescrlpt are
both good starting points) to see if you can find a
script already written to do what you want.

Modify an Existing Script If you can’t find
a script that does exactly what you want, you might
find one that performs a task that’s at least similar to
what you want to do, then modify it. Modifying an
existing script is usually much simpler than starting
from scratch and Is a good way to get into scripting.

Check the Dictionary Before You
Start Before you try to write a script, take a close
look at the dictionary of the application in question.
Sometimes it’s Impossible to create certain types of
scripts in particular apps.

Read the Books If you want to take full
advantage of AppleScript, you need a good reference
book— or, since good manuals are quickly becoming
as rare as the spotted owl, a good tutorial. Take a look
at the Web sites mentioned above for links to some
outstanding tutorials. Among the few good general
books on AppleScript are Bruce Perry’s AppfeScr/pt in
a Nutshell (O’Reilly, 2001) and Danny Goodman’s
AppleScript Handbook (ToExcel, 2000).

Scripting Additions

To make useful AppleScripts, you have two options: You can either issue commands to
applications or enlarge the core AppleScript language itself by installing a number of
universal commands that apply to all apps. Extensions to AppleScript are called
Scripting Additions, orOSAXs (Open Scripting Architecture extensions). Scripting
Additions let AppleScript perform useful tasks without having to communicate with
specific applications— once you’ve installed a Scripting Addition by placing it in the
Scripting Additions folder of your System folder, you can issue the commands It
contains at any time. '

A standard set of additions (somewhat uncreatively named Standard Add/tions)
comes bundled with the OS (you can find it in the Scripting Addjtibns folder of your

System Folder). You canfHdfhariy other Scripting Additions at /osaxen.com

/index.php, part of the insanely useful Macscrlpter.net Web site. Standard Add itions
are tools that enable AppleScripts to perform basic functions. Here’s a partial list:

say— The say command makes your Mac sp^ak the text you provide in quotes using
the built-in PlaInTalk speech synthesizer, '

set volume— The set volume^tommand does just that: It sets the system volume.
The command set volume 0 turns off the volume entirely, while set volume 7 turns
up the volume to the maximum.

delay— The delay command forces the script to pause for the number of seconds you
specify. This command has two main uses: It can pause a script to let some slow ;
process like printing or network access finish, and it can stall a script structured as an
infinite loop to keep it from unnecessarily tying up the CPU.

open location— Th^ open location command is a real beauty, just type open
location followed by a URL, and your system will launch an appropriate application
(Web browser, email program, or whatever) to handle the URL.

display dialog— The display dialog command is the most basic tool your scripts can
use to request user input. For instance, typing display dialog ”0K to delete the
file?” buttons rYes'V'No'l default button "No” lets you ask users to confirm
their request before they do permanent damage.

choose folder, choose file, choose file name— These commands display
standard file dialog boxes from a host of applications.

DEC/01|MacAdd/cf|35

AppleScript

FinderTricks

T he first application most neophyte scripters attack Is the Rnder. One of the best
things about the Finder is also its greatest weakness: Its user interface makes it
very difficult to do boring, repetitive tasks like renaming files In a way that isn't
boring and repetitive. AppleScript can help. Note: Scripting the Finder in Mac OS lo.i Is
similar to scripting the Mac OS 9.1 Finder,

The Script

The following script written For the Mac OS 9 Rnder moves all the files In a specific ^
folder that end in .moveme into a new folder called Mowed—useful If you generate a ^
lot of files you don*t need. Say you have a number of ,hqx files on your desktop that
you want to move to the Trash, you can tweak this scri pt to do just that.

Most scriptable applications support the make new
command, which lets you make new instances of objects,
whether they are Bezier paths, database records, or folders
(as in this case). The at thefolder command tells the
Finder where to create the new folder (in this case, inside the
folder users chose in the previous line of the script).

^ untitled

Here we nested two commands. The choose folder command
inside the parentheses lets the user choose which folder the rest of
the script will search for .moveme files. The set thefolder to
command keeps track of which folder the user chooses.

tell abplication "Finder"

set thefolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select the folder to sea rch"^

^set movedfolder to (make new folder at thefolder with properties (namef’Moved"})
move (every item of thefolder whose name ends with ".moveme") to movedfolder

end tell

The phrase whose name ends
with ".moveme" is an example of
what AppleScript calls a filter: The
instruction generates a list of
references to files that meet the stated
conditions. The command outside the
parentheses moves every item in that
list to the “Moved” folder we created
in the previous line.

Lights, Camera, Actions

W ith Mac OS 8.5, Apple enhanced the Rnder so users could attach scripts to 1
folders. Called Folder Actions, these scripts fire up when some predefined i

event takes place— for example, when you open or close a folder. Folder Actions can
deal with adding and removing items and with closing, opening, or moving the folder’s
window. Take a peek inside the Scripts folder in your System Folder for examples of
these types of scripts.

Creating Folder Actions involves two steps:

1 . Write the Script

A Folder Action looks much like any ^her AppleScript, with one key
difference: The commands sit inside a structure called a handler Say
what? Here’s an example of a handler that would activate if you removed
items from the folder:

on removing folder items from thisjolder after losing these Jtems
end removing folder items from

When you remove items from the folder to which you attach this script, the
Rnder assigns the name this_folder as a way to refer to the folder; likewise,
it uses the name thesejtems to refer to the items you removed.

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Get Info I

Label I

Duplicate
Make Alias
Add To Favorites

Find Similar Fites
Index selection...

Attflch a Folder Action...

To add a Folder Action to a
folder, first bring up the
contextuaf menu.

2. Attach the Action

In the Rnder, Control-click the folder to which you want to add an action.
In the contextual menu that appears, choose Attach A Folder Action.
From there, select the correct AppleScript and test it out.

Be careful: Because the Finder is responsible for running Folder
Actions, it has to become aware of a change to trigger a Folder Action.

So the items must change in the Rnder to activate the Folder Action.

This means you have to leave the folder’swindow open if you wantthe
action to work— a clumsy kludge. If you need to set up an automated
file- or folder-processing procedure, you’re better off with Sophisticated
Circuits’ iDo Script Scheduler ($24.95, vvww.sophisticated.com), which
lets you run AppleScripts at designated intervals.

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AFTER

M icrosoft Word scripts tend to fall into one of two groups: those that
speed up basic style changes like titling, and truly outre hacks.

(WeVe even seen scripts that turn Word into a simple command-line
interface!) Besides AppleScript, you can use Visual Basic, a built-in scripting
language, to automate tasks In Office 2001's Word, and the speedier, more powerful
REALbasic to automate tasks in Office v. X*s Word X, which runs only on Mac 0 $ ioa .

The Script

BEFORE

Say you’re writing a book, and every time you
start a new section, you want to format the title
text in 18-point bold. Rather than going through
your manuscript and changing all of those titles
to 18-point bold manually, you can build a script
that does it foryou. The only work required
(besides writing the script) is to indicate to the
program which paragraphs are titles—in this
case, you need to add the text <TITLE> before the
appropriate paragraphs*

Tlusispazagraph 1

^ITLE>This is paragraph 2

This is paiagrapli 3

Tins IS paiBgraph 1
<TITLE>3J^ is paragraph
Hiis is paragraphs

By typing quick text tags like this one,
you can Indicate to AppleScript which
text you want formatted*

Once you ve run the script, you can do a quick
search-and-replace to gat rid of the tags.

This line instructs the script to copy the

entire text of your document into a list

named paras. Each item on the list contains

the text of one paragraph. This lets the script

examine the text of each paragraph in turn.

Without a tell statement like

this one, your script won t

know a thing about Word

documents, text styles, or

anything else specific to Word!

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Record Stop Run

Check Syntax

tell application "Microsoft Word"

The repeat statement lets the script repeat a
group of commands in a loop. In this form,
repeat first sets thepara (a variable we’re
using to count paragraphs) to 1 . Every time the
script reaches the line end repeat, the script
will add one to thepara, then see if that
number is equal to noparas, the total number
of paragraphs. If it is, the loop ends the next
time the script reaches end repeat

copy every paragraph of the front document to paras

The count command
counts the number of
items in the list.

set noparas to count paras

repeat with thepara from 1 to noparas

if item thepara of paras contains <TITLE> then

tell paragraph thepara of the front document

The if statement lets you Issue
commands when some given condition
is true. In this case, the commands
between if and end if will execute
only If the paragraph currently under
consideration contains < TITLE >

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set

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end

tell

end

The tell command doesn t just let AppleScript know

which application should receive instructions— you can

also tell objects within an app to do things. In this case

we’re telling the paragraph that contains <TITLE> to

change its font size and style.

end

repeat

end

tell

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FileMaker

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f you’re a longtime FileMaker user, you’ve probably struggled with importing
data from text files atone point or another. If your file is tab delimited,

■ imports are easy— but what if it isn’t? AppleScript to the rescue!

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Trying to import files like these into FileMaker can drive you crazy— And here it is— our FileMaker database of inventory items,

a script will restore your sanity.

suppose you have an old text file that contains inventory items. Instead of containing tab- or comma-delimited
I I Iw Vi^ v^l I L data, however, the file is arranged in fixed-length fields. In this file, the first 10 characters make up a serial
. " number, the next 4 indicate the price in dollars, and the remaining 58 contain a product description. Each line

ends with a return. To convert this Information into a FileMaker file, create a database with three fields: serial
number, price, and description. The following script takes care of the rest.

" Much like the first line of the Finder

script, this statement lets the user
choose a file to import via a dialog box.
The of type riEXT"} part forces
you to choose a text file.

Record Stop

set fffile to (choose file with prompt "Select the fixed-field file" of type rTEXT”})
set fff to (open for access fffile)

tell application "FileMaker Pro"

se t fileend to (get eof fff)

dataread to 0

repeat until dataread = fileend

This statement, open for access, is a Standard Additiomthat lets you read text files directly
from AppleScript. Here, we’re setting thewariable'fff to a number that will represent the open I
file. (The number has no meaning; it simply keeps track of the file so we can write to it later.)

The script has to keep track of the total amount of data it reads. Since the script knows how
much data the file contains, it can check to see if iFs d”one after reading each line.

AppleScript itself can pull apart
a string of characters; in these
four lines, the script first keeps a
running count of how many
characters it reads, then pulls
the fixed-field file into pieces.

set therec to (create new record at f ront document)
tell application "Finder"

set recstr to (read fff for 72)

end tell

set dataread to dataread + (count recstr)
set serno to characters 1 thru 10 of recstr
set prce to characters 1 1 thru 14 of recstr
set descr to characters 1 5 thru 71 of recstr

Here the script creates a new record to store the line of
data It’s about to read, with the assumption that the
front document (that is, the database in the frontmost
window in FileMaker) contains our data file.

Now the script reads the record itself. The read fff for
72 command tells AppleScript to read 72 characters {the
number of characters in one line) from the text file. A tell
application "Finder” block encloses the line because
otherwise FileMaker would interfere with the command.

set (cellValue of (cell "serial number") of therec) to serno as string
set cellValue of cell "price" of therec to prce as string
set cellValue of cell "description" of therec to descr as string

end repeat

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Here the script sets the actual values
in the database. For some strange
reason, the folks who implemented
FileMaker’s AppleScript dictionary
decided to call the representation
of a field in any particular record a
cell and the value stored In each
cell a cellValue.

Seeing Stars in

Illustrator

G enerating complex geometric patterns in Illustrator requires a surprising
amount of mathematics. To make a star, for example, you have to figure
out exactly what angle should appear at each corner of the star, then
replicate that angle repeatedly. Shouldn’t your Mac do all this calculation for you? It
should, and It can— if you use AppleScript.

The first time most would-be scripters look into Illustrator 9.0’s AppleScript
dictionary, they get a rude shock: It’s entirely blank! The reason is simple: Illustrator
9.0 uses a plug-in to handle AppleScript commands. Download the scripting plug-in
from Adobe’s Web site (www.adobe.com/support/downloads/ilmac.htm) and drag
it into the Extensions folder of Illustrator’s Plug-ins folder.

AppleScript

Here’s the final star. For a more complex pattern, try modifying
the script to connect every point to every other point.

The Script

AppleScript doesn’t Include the necessary trigonometric functions (sine and cosine) to perform the mathematics
involved in creating geometric figures, so you need to use a Scripting Addition. We relied on the dated but still
usable Math Commands freeware (www.osaxen.com), along with some basic knowledge of trig, to create a
13-pointed star. And don’t worry— this process is far less painful than sitting through ol’ Mrs. McGillicuddy’s
freshman trig class.

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tell application "Adobe Illustrator® 9.0.2"

make new document

make new path item of front document

set pi to 3.1 41 5927 _

repeat with i from 0 to 1 3

As with most computer calculations,
Math Commands performs its
trigonometric calculations assuming
that angles are measured in radians.
Since there are exactly 2 n (that is,

2 times k) radians In a circle, the
script needs to know the value of k.

We’re making a star with
13 points, so the script
needs to draw 14 lines.

Whenfyou draw a star, with an odd
number of points, (Ji need to connect
each point to the two points farthest
away from that original point. In this
case, if you connect each point to
another point 6 points away (6 points is
as far away as you can get in a star
with 13 points) you’ll eventually draw
the entire star! Since the points of a star
lie on a circle, you can use sine and
cosine to find the x and y coordinates of
points along a circle of radius 1; the
multiplication and additions (everything
represented by -r and *) scale and
translate the star so that it lies inside a
circle of radius 100, centered at the
200, 200 coordinates.

make new path point of path Item 1 of front document -i

with properties {anchor:{newx, newy}, left direction:{newx, newy}, ■
right direction:{newx, newy}}

end repeat

end tell

Now that the script knows where the next point of the star Is, It adds the point to the path the
script is creating. We need to create both the anchor and the left and right directional points, or
the path will end up curving at random. Since a star requires straight lines, set the directional
points required by B6zier paths (you knew this was a Bezier path, right?) to lie directly atop the
anchor. (By the way, the symbol is a soft return— just type Option-Return to get it)

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Maya Maya, pants on fyah!

©2001 Callaway & Kirk
Company LLC. All rights
reserved. Image courtesy
Kleiser-Watczak. Based on the
book by David KirKUttleMiss
Spider, copyright (c) 1999 by
Callaway & Kirk Company LLC.

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Mava top Mac OS X

design & graphics

You can master minute details and achieve Incredible realism with Maya’s
customizable tools and rendering engine.

Maya is based on MEL (Maya Embedded
Language), a scripting language that lets
you create tools and execute often-used
commands. MEL works much like
AppleScript; It automates complex tasks by
assigning a sequence of functions to a
single button. The MEL Script Editor logs
every step you perform. You can select any
of these actions or sets of actions from the
editor and simply drag your selection to the
Shelf (see “Ultimate Customizability,” p4i),
where It becomes a push-button tool. Now
thatis freakin’ awesome.

Maya uses the same basic modeling
conventions (such as lofting, lathing, and
spline curves) found In other 3D tools like
Lightwave 3D and Cinema 4D, as well as the
two basic types of modeling methods:
polygonal and NURBS. Polygonal modeling
Is based on shapes with distinct faces
(facets), while NURBS (Non-Uniform
Rational B-Spllnes) is based on the
calculation of curves—eitherway, Maya
affords an incredible amount of control.

As you work— creating, scaling, bending,
positioning, stretching, and otherwise
tweaking objects— Maya records a history of
those little tweaks In the Attribute Editor. You
can go back to any one of those attributes
and change it without affecting the node’s
other attributes. This backlog of data history
Is crucial to efficient production, and you
won’t find it In any other program— at least
not to the degree that Maya offers. You also
have an unlimited number of undos for
linear, step-based corrections.

Maya has a built-in physics engine,
which means objects can carry weight,
collide, and deform. A good example of
physics In action Is a handkerchief object
landing on a ball. Without simulated
physics, the handkerchief object would
simply pass right through the ball because
no concept of mass exists In the scenario. In
Maya, you can give mass to the objects, turn
the handkerchief Into a soft object, then add
gravity and friction, so the handkerchief can
not only land on a ball and conform itself to

Maya’s magic-
in this case,
proper use of color
and fighting
transforms basic
NURBS models
into stunning 3D
scenes.

Company: Alias | Wavefront

Contact: 800-447-2542, www.aliaswavetront.com

Price: $7,500 (SRP)

Requirements: G4, Mac OS 10.0.4,* 512MB RAM, ATI
Rage 128 or Radeon graphics card,* three-button mouse

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time we spent
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For a demo
video of Maya,
see The Disc.

aya coming to the Mac is
undoubtedly one of the greatest
events for the Mac 3D user, and
likewise for the whole Mac community.

It’s proof that an industry leader sees the
Macintosh as a viable 3D platform. Maya
(on other platforms) created a lot of the 3D
effects you see in motion pictures, such as
Star Wars— Episode I and Final Fantasy: The
Spirits Within. Now that Maya has come to
Mac OSX, how good is It really, and how
can you justify the $7,500 price tag? Maya is
damn good— In the right hands, it can pay
for itself overnight.

Maya is based on (according to the
manual) *"nodes with attributes that are
connected.” Huh? Nodes are representations
of different aspects of 3D, such as the 3D
object, its shape and surface, and the lights
that illuminate a 3D scene. Each node has
specific attributes, which you tweak to define
an object’s appearance. Color and texture,
for example, are two different attributes
of a surface node. The interconnection of
these attributes and nodes constitutes the
framework of Maya. The program’s
documentation emphasizes the importance
of understanding this holistic concept— once
we got It, Maya made a lot more sense.

SuppopL shnnpport

A S of this writing, Mac OS 10.1
hasn’t been released, so
AllasjWavefront has only qualified Maya
to work with Mac OS 10.0.4. There are
also some video driver issues with
nVidia GeForce cards; both of these
Issues should be resolved by the time
you read this. For the record, Maya
worked fine on our prerelease version of
Mac OS 10.1, GeForce card included.

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select -r mirbsSphereT ;

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rotate -r 17.648801 0 0 ;

rotate -r -o$ 0 -41 .61 321 4 0 ;

scale -r 2.441747 2.441747 2.441747 ;

select -d ;

The MEL Script Editor records your every move—
here we’ve created a sphere which we then moved,
rotated (on two axes), and resized.

the bairs shape, but also slide off as it would in
real life. All this is calculated on the fly, so you can
view the effects from different angles without
having to stop the animation or render the scene.

Maya’s built-in particle engine creates realistic
atmospheric effects (including smoke, fire, sparks,
and liquid), and you can apply particle dynamics
to objects— for example, shattering glass into bits.
You can also integrate particle dynamics into
more-complex projects, such as creating a
windblown field of grass and flowers, or building
a crowd of walking people.

Paint Effects is unique to Maya, and it’s an
amazing, interactive method of painting 2D and
3D elements into your scene. Imagine assigning a
sunflower, complete with stem and leaves, to a
paintbrush, and simply stroking across an empty
plane to plant a row of flora. You can create an
entire field of flowers this way. Thanks to the
particle engine, these flowers react to natural
dynamics, like wind, just as real flowers would.

If Maya has an Achilles heel, it’s the rendering
engine. The quality of rendered output is very
good— sufficient for most production needs— but
it renders on the slower side, even on dual-
processor Macs, because Maya isn’t optimized
for multiple processors.

Early adopters, buy your copy now. Maya is
very stable for a first-time release (we
experienced no crashes, just occasional slow-
downs), so you can get right to work. Yes, Maya is
expensive, but it’s an incredible tool— a great
investment if you want to learn an industry-
standard application but don’t have (or want) an
NT or SGI machine to run it on. Becoming a Maya
guru can get your foot into many a 3D-studio
door. Big-time Hollywood studios use Maya for
a good reason— there’s no better off-the-shelf
application with such ease of use, customizability,
and detailed tweaking. And that $7,500 is chump
change compared to the return studios get for
their money.— Anc/rew Tokuda

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tweakability. Customizable interface.
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Invoke Marking Menus by clicking
an area iti the north, south,
east, or west quadrant, or in the
center of the open Hotbox. This
Marking Menu offers access to
different panel layouts.

You can see the Hotbox and Marking Menus in action by checking out a free Maya
tutorial video at Gnomon Online (www.gnomononline.com).

Stock the Shelf with your Window
own tools; the buttons
represent common
functions and commands.

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paints a 3D dahlia.

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Invoke tools on your own terms and even control what they do. Four utterly
customizable shortcuts are the Hotbox, Marking Menus, the Shelf, and Hotkeys.

Pressing the space bar
opens the Hotbox, an
Instant toolbar that gives
you access to every single
menu function in Maya.

You can configure the
Hotbox to show only the
menu functions you desire.

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reviews

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hardware

Company: Minolta

Contact: 201-825-4000, www.minoltausa.com
Price: $700 (SRP)

Requirements: G3 or faster, Mac OS 8.&-9.X, built-in USB

The sveite Dimage S304 snaps great-looking photos and looks great doing it.

T he Dimage S304 represents
one giant leap toward making
Minolta a tough competitor in the
crowded digital-camera marketplace. Unlike
many of the respected camera maker’s
previous digital models, the S304 excels in
usability and picture quality— and delivers
excellent value to boot

The Dimage S304’s macro function is easily
accessed and performs well, as seen in this
unaltered photo.

The 3.34-megapixel (3.14 million
effective pixels) S304 is solidly built and
smartly designed for comfortable, one-
hand shooting: Its weight is well balanced,
and the controls are all easily accessible
and intuitively placed. The shutter-release
button is particularly responsive and far
enough removed from the other controls
so that it’s tough to miss capturing the
decisive moment. The 5304*5 shutter
delay— the annoying lapse that often
occurs in digital cameras between the
time you push the button and the time the
camera finally records the photograph—
is mercifully brief.

The main command and power dial
offers the options we like to see: Auto-
Recording (for point-and-shoot simplicity),
Multi-Function Recording (for accessing
manual overrides), Playback, Setup, and
Data-Transfer modes. The dial also offers
easy access to Movie Recording mode, a

real advantage over scrolling through
menus to access this function. The S304
captures clips of digital video with sound up
to 60 seconds long, which is quite good;
many digital-still cameras top out at 15- or
30-second clips, and they often lack sound-
recording capabilities. The microphone
doesn’t perform well in situations with
background noise, but that Isn’t unusual
among cameras of this sort— recording
sound is an appealing bonus, but don’t
expect high fidelity.

The Dimage sports a 4X optical zoom
lens— that translates to 35mm to 140mm in
35mm camera terms, although the zoom
control itself is a little sluggish and
imprecise. The camera also offers five-area
autofocus and optional manual override of
the built-in sharpness, saturation, and
contrast settings.

The camera features an extra button on
top of the unit, next to the LCD readout, for
quickly selecting one of five preset shooting
situations if you’re shooting in Auto-
recording mode. It’s a nifty convenience:
Pushing the button multiple times scrolls
through the presets, which are clearly
marked with icons above the LCD readout.
This makes for easy access to Macro,

Portrait, Landscape,
Night Portrait, and
Text settings.

The biggest
drawback to these

setting— which is off in the Macro,
Landscape, Night Portrait, and Text modes.
Although that may well be a logical choice in
Macro, Landscape, and Text, there isn’t any
indication in the LCD display that the flash
won’t fire unless you turn it on, so you’re
likely to forget to do so. And the Night
Portrait setting is really misnamed, as such a
portrait would require that the flash be on;
not only must you turn on the flash
manually, but doing so is the only way to
activate the Slow-Sync flash. We’d prefer to
see that setting Included in the standard
flash menu.

The S304 is intuitive and fun to use, and
Minolta has made some Impressive leaps In
its metering and image-processing
algorithms: Images were consistently well
exposed, with accurate, rich colors. We saw
only minimal color aberrations and noise in
our output. The $304*5 image quality was
among the best we’ve seen in high-end
consumer models, delivering results on a par
with cameras that cost upward of $200
more— Michael Shapiro

ily priced.
Great output. Smart controls. Flexible
movie mode. tM news: Poorly
labeled flash settings. Buried Siow-
Sync flash setting, imprecise zoom.

automatic settings
is the difficult-to-
dedpher default flash

The Dimage S304
delivers excellent detail
and color reproduction,
offering sensible
photography at a
sensible price.

42|MacAafd/cf|DEC/01

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL SHAPIRO PHOTOGRAPH BY W. B. JONES

MSE-U33HB USB BigBal
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hardware

Company; Onkyo
Contact; www.onkyousa.com
Price: $199 (SRP)

Requirements: PowerMac, Mac OS 9.0,4 or later,
built-in USB port

Forget that old record player—
this little device records vinyl
straight to your hard drive.

A pple’s sound-input port may have
gone the way of the dodo, but its
absence doesn’t spell death to
the desktop musician. While pro audio
musicians are better served by the
multitudes of PCI-based sound cards on the
market, audio hobbyists can take advantage
of USB audio devices, such as the Onkyo
MSE-U33HB USB Digital Audio Processor,
which provides more audio inputs than
your typical Mac.

The MSE-U33HB is a small, powered
USB device that features a set of stereo
RCA ins and outs, as well as a i/8-lnch
microphone input. An input selector lets you
toggle between Line In (for home-stereo
connections) and Mic In (for nonpowered
microphones), while a small knob up front
adjusts the input levels. The device also acts
as a USB hub, offering three available ports.

Hooking up the unit is easy and doesn’t
require any drivers. We powered up the
device and connected it to our iBook’s built-
in USB port with the included cable, and the
iBook recognized it Instantly. We were more
than happy to install the Included software:
BIAS Peak LE 2.5 and Rhythmic Circle FUSE
(see “Bundled Booty,” right).

We took a trip down memory lane and
connected our dusty, ancient 4-track
recorderto the MSE-U33HB,then recorded
our old demo songs to the Mac’s hard disk
using Peak LE. The MSE-U33HB did not
fail—our audio recorded consistently with
no dropouts. Though we had a few clipping
problems in the beginning (Peak didn’t
satisfactorily indicate that our audio levels
were too high), we quickly remedied the
problem by turning down the input level
on the device.

The MSE-U33HB showed Its benefits
when we made a voice recording. Normally,
we have to add mic gain in our recording

app to get decent levels. With the
MSE-U33HB, we got a nice gain boost
directly from the Mic In, eliminating
some of the hiss associated with level
boosting done via software.

The device’s RCA outs allow you to hook
up a pair of powered speakers to turn
your Mac into a pseudo sound system—
unfortunately, all of our powered speakers
either possess 1/8-inch connectors or are
wIre-in only, so we didn’t get to test this.
However, we did connect a tape deck to the

outs and recorded our newly remastered
songs back to tape (just because we could).

Though it’s pricey, if you have records or
tapes you’d like to digitize or you need a
means of getting sound into a Mac that
lacks audio input, the MSE-U33HB
is a great device that handles
the job easily.— /Cr/s Fong

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blues associated with newer ...
news: Pricey.

Bundled Booty

T he Onkyo MSE-U33HB may have a fat sticker price, but there’s
added value in its software bundle.

Bias Peak IE 2.5 This audio-
editing program handles
recording via the MSE-U33HB, as
well as editing and enhancing
stereo audio files by normalizing
audio, cutting and pasting
segments, and adding Premiere-
format effects. The MP3 encoder
will come ip handy, but it requires
Macromedia’s Shockwave Audio
Xtras file (free, downloadable
from www.macromedia.com).

Rhythmic Circle FUSE If you’re
looking to add a little eye candy
to your music, this video-jockey
app generates tons of hippy-
trippy animations that mutate
according to the audio you play
through the MSE-U33HB. Select
any combination of images,
patterns, and shapes, and let
your tunes d ictate the effect.

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Company: Intuit

Contact: 800-811-8766, www.intuit.com
Price: $59.95 (SRP), $20 rebate for upgrading users
Requirements: Mac OS 9.0.4 or later with 64MB RAM, or
Mac OS 1 0.0.3 or later with 1 28MB RAM; 75MB free hard
disk space

D evoted Mac fans may recall a
startling announcement Intuit
made in 1998: The company would
discontinue development of Quicken for the
Mac OS, its best-selling personal-finance
software package. Fortunately for Quicken
users, Apple changed Intuit* s mind. Quicken
2000 and 2001 may not have thoroughly
convinced the Mac community of Intuit’s
devotion to the Mac OS, but Quicken 2002
Deluxe’s modern look and evolved feature
set remove all doubt.

To start. Quicken 2002 Deluxe was built
for Mac OS X and sports an excellent
implementation of the Aqua interface. Don’t
worry, though—ifyou haven’t taken the leap
to Mac OS X yet, you can install the OS 9
version from the same disc. The feature set
of both versions is identical, so when you
upgrade from OS 9 to OS X, you’ll hit the
ground running.

The four new features that really show
Intuit’s devotion to Mac users are functions
the Windows version has had for some
time: Brokerage Transaction Download,

One Step Update, PIN Vault, and Capital
Gains Estimator.

Brokerage Transaction Download builds
on the convenience of prior Quicken
versions’ online access to transaction
records from financial Institutions. Now
active Investors can easily record and
account for their brokerage dealings as the

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clean— financial management never looked so good.

deals go down, instead of waiting for the end
of the month. Brokerage Transaction
Download is a great idea, but it won’t be a
great feature until more brokers provide the
transaction downloads— Intuit expects a
wider support base in the near future.

One Step Update is another timesaving
feature— it lets you exchange transaction
information with multiple banks, credit card
companies, investment firms, and the
Quicken.com Web site, ail in one fell swoop.
PIN Vault, a related feature, stores PINs
(personal identification numbers) for all your
online-enabled accounts. One Step Update
lets you unlock all PINs with one password.

Capital Gains Estimator is a great feature
for investors. Select a security and enter how
much you’re selling, and Quicken calculates
the gain or loss on the sale and, if it’s a gain,
the amount of long- or short-term capital
gains tax you will owe.

Everyone who uses Quicken for tracking
tax-related income and expenses will benefit
from the improved Set Up/Edit Category
dialog box, which makes setting up Tax
Links— Quicken’s conduit to specific tax-form
lines and categories— a breeze.

Long-time Quicken users may miss the
QuickEntry and Quicken Home Inventory

components (for quick entry of minor
financial activities and cataloging
household items, respectively). Intuit
includes these programs on the Quicken
installer disc, but the company warns that
it no longer supports them.

Annual upgrades to software are often
a questionable expense, but there’s no
question about a Quicken 2002 upgrade-
buy it! The improved feature set makes
it worthwhile for any Quicken user.

—Maria Langer

good news: Built for Mac os x.
timesaving features, news:
Windows version still
features. Brokerai

They call it One Step Update because It can
update all your online-enabled accounts at the
push of a button...

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hardware

Company: Brother International
Contact: 800-276-7746 or 908-704-1700.
www.brother.com
Price: $499.99 (street)

Requirements: G3 or faster, Mac OS 8.5.1 or later, 50MB
free hard disk space

L aser printers need to be quite

persuasive these days— for the same
price as a basic laser, you can buy an
inkjet printer glorious enough for the gods.
So who would buy Brother*s HL-1470N black-
and-white laser printer? For small or home
offices that need AppleTalk compatibility
and PostScript for printing lots of text and
moderate amounts of graphics, this printer
is a robust and dependable choice.

The HL-1470N is easy enough to set up,
with one notable exception. The box ships
with neither a USB nor an Ethernet cable.
However, once you get cables, the setup for
this i,2oo-by-6oo-dpi printer is a snap. The
printer offers Brother's emulated PostScript
Level 2, 250-sheet paper tray, and a
lo/iooBase-T Ethernet port for network
printing; even a Mac OS X driver is available
at www.brother.com.

In action, the HL-1470N produced crisp
text at both lai^e (i28-point) and small (6-
point) type sizes. We printed hundreds of
pages with nary a dip in output quality. At

Printing PnstScript

A t some point, you'll probably want
to print some PostScript graphics.
You'll have to step up to network
printing over Ethernet. This is as simple
as connecting the HL-1470N to your
network with a standard Ethernet cable,
and using Apple's LaserWriter 8 Driver
(installed with the Mac OS) and
Brother’s PPD (on the HL-i47oN's disc
and atwww.brother.com). No network?
Ail you need is a crossover Ethernet
cable, which connects the printer
directly to your Mac, creating a mini-
network for your printing convenience.
After a little Web browser-based printer
configuration (PDF manual included),
you've got PostScript printing.

300, 600, and 1,200 dpi, text pages chugged
through at the advertised rate of 15 pages per
minute. Of course, spooling times varied
depending on the print resolution. Spooling
took about 10 seconds longer at 1,200 dpi
than it did at 300 dpi, and it showed— we
found that smooth color gradations and
sharp edges required that we print out
graphics at 1,200 dpi.

On the subject of graphics, the printer
ships with SMB of onboard memory. When
printing via USB from a PowerBook G3/400
with 128MB of RAM, we weren't able to print
a 22MB Photoshop file. However, a 500MHz
G3 iBook with 256MB of RAM printed the
same file without issue. Brother recommends
upgrading the onboard memory (a 32MB
card costs about $40) if you plan to print
large graphics, but sufficient RAM in the
attached Mac seemed to do the trick for us,
and savvy shoppers can get at least an extra
128MB for the same $40.

As always, we do have some nitpicky
complaints. The one-button control panel
(with four LED lights) on the printer Isn't
much help in times of malfunction. Plus,
unlike its PC counterpart, the Mac software
lacks options like email printing, interactive
help, and some brightness and contrast
settings. Also, Brother's USB drivers don't do
PostScript (EPS) graphics, but the printer's
Ethernet port gets you around that limitation
(see “Printing PostScript," left).

Still, for $500, the HL-1470N offers high-
quality printing, Ethernet networking (you
provide the cable), and emulated PostScript.
We found this printer a reliable device
for printing all of our documents
and most of our graphics.

—Narasu Rebbapragada

good ilOlitfS: Speedy, clear prints.

Low cost, bad nows: Display Panel
unclear. No USB cable.

Although not as useful as
its PC counterpart,
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gives you some paper-type
and color options.

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hardware

m500

Company: Palm

Contact: 800-881 -yzse, www.palm.com
Price: $329 (SRP)

Requirements: PowerMac, Mac OS 8.5,1 or later, 15MB
free hard disk space. USB port, CD-ROM drive

Visor Edge

Company: Handspring

Contact: 888-565-9393, www.handspring.com
Price: $299 (SRP)

Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 8.5 or later, 25MB free
hard disk space, USB port, CD-ROM drive

Clie PEG-S320

Company: Sony

Contact: 888-595-8246, wv\w,sony.com/clie
Price: $199.99 (SRP)

Requirements: PowerMac, Mac OS 8.5 or later, 15MB tree
hard disk space, USB port, CD-ROM drive

T hough a marketing hack may have
cooked up the term personal digital
assistant, there’s some truth in that
label: Handhelds are a personal matter, and
nothing exemplifies that better than our
three candidates for smallest PDA of the
year. Like Hollywood stars, the latest
grayscale PDAs from Palm, Handspring, and
Sony are lighter, thinner, and smaller than
ever. Each is based on the Palm 05 , each
runs on a rechargeable battery, and each
offers SMB of internal memory. But the
resemblance ends there. Which PDA is right
foryou ultimately depends upon how you
use it, where you carry it, how much it costs,
and even how it fits in your hand.

That said, weTl still put in our two cents’
worth. Our price-be-damned choice is the
Palm msoo. Its slim, contoured form factor,
combined with ease of use and killer
software, make it the overall best handheld
of the bunch. The rub? The msoo is also the
most expensive device. Handspring’s Visor
Edge offers the best expansion possibilities
of the three but unfortunately emphasizes
design over ease of use— so much so that

finding the device’s power switch took us
nearly 5 minutes. The Sony Clie PEG-S320 is
the cheapest of the bunch but is not Mac
compatible out of the box and requires third-
party software for hot syncing.

Some people might like the Clie’s petite
body enough so that they don’t mind its
piecemeal approach to software. Others
might appreciate the Visor Edge’s expansion
capabilities. As we said, PDAs are a personal
matter. Here’s our personal take on all three.

Palm mSOO

First off, we’d like to congratulate Palm on
finally checking what year it is and evolving
from serial to USB. The addition of modern
connectivity, along with the msoo’s tiny
body and lightweight, make it hands down
the best combination of form and function.

The msoo comes with a USB cradle that
recharges the device if you plug in the
included AC adapter; once you install the
Palm Desktop software on your Mac, hot
syncing is a breeze. The msoo also comes
with a number of cool apps that cost
beaucoup bucks if you purchase them
separately, somewhat justifying the
device’s higher price. One of these apps is
Dataviz’s Documents to Go, which you can
use to edit Word and Excel documents on
your Palm (this software alone costs $70).
Other apps include a more-advanced
calculator, PalmReader for reading e-books,
and PhotoSuite for viewing images on your

handheld. For importing all those files, the
msoo’s card slot reads both Secure Digital
and MultiMedia cards.

The Palm msoo fits oh-so-snugly in the
palm of your hand and is lithe enough to fit
into the pocket of a tight pair of jeans with
nary a bulge. So why, we want to know, is
the cradle the size and weight of a small
boulder? Besides the cradle, our only gripe
with the msoo is its over-$3oo price tag-
still a bit high for a grayscale handheld,
even if it is cool.

The hand that rocks the mSOO’s cradle had
better be a really large one.

Handspring Visor Edge

There are times when you wonder, “Who
hired that person?” That’s what we’re
wondering about the guy or girl who
designed the Visor Edge.

For starters, the power switch blends in
so seamlessly with the device’s shell that it’s
difficult to find (hint: bottom right corner).
Because the power switch is embedded into

Stylin’ and profilin’ (left to right): Sony’s Clie PEG-S320, Handspring’s Visor Edge, and Palm’s m500.

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY W. B. JONES

We’ll give you a buck if you can figure out
where the power button is on the Visor Edge.

OK, no, we won’t.

the device and doesn’t stick out, it’s
impossible to hard-reset your PDA without
painfully contorting your fingers (a hard-reset
requires holding down the power switch while
inserting a paper clip into the Reset hole on
the back). Then there's the metal flip lid, which
only opens partway and doesn’t tuck under
the Visor’s body (thankfully, it’s removable).
Also, the stylus wedges precariously between
two grooves on the side rather than sliding
Into one long holder. All this (not to mention
the Visor’s bulky girth) adds up to one poorly
designed PDA.

The Edge’s cradle is awesome, but the fiip iid
doesn’t quite make it ali the way around to the
back-^o annoying.

Design faux pas aside, the Visor Edge
works just fine and hot syncs without a hitch. It
ships with a SpringBoard expansion slot
(Handspring’s proprietary technology) that you
slip onto the back of the device when you
need it. Of all the different PDA expansion
capabilities, the SpringBoard’s is by far the
coolest, capable of adding an IVIP3 player, a
digital camera, or a GPS device to your Visor,
it’s a really neat feature— for those who use it.

Sony Clie PEG-S320

For Mac users, the Sony Clie line is a sad case
of “If only...” If only Sony supported the Mac,
the affordable Clie would be a wonderful
alternative to Palm and Handspring.

The Clie PEG-S320 ships with a slew of
software— all of it is Windows only, but if you
love the Clie enough, there are ways around
that limitation. Rrst and foremost. The
Missing Sync from Mark/Space ($29.95,
www.markspace.com) bridges the
communication gap between the Clie and the
Mac. All we had to do was download and
Install the free Palm Desktop software from
Palm’s Web site (www.palm.com), then install
The Missing Sync— after that, we were up and

The Clie is a sprightly little PDA that unfortunately
comes only with PC software.

The Clie comes with a USB cable in lieu of a
proper hot-sync cradle, but we love the jog dial.

hot syncing in no time. Even so, the Clie
ships with a number of applications Mac-
heads can’t use. For instance, Sony’s own
PictureGear converts images to a format the
Palm OS can read, so you can Import pictures
to, say, your date book or address book— but
only from a PC.

Software aside, the Clie is a slick little
device. It features a jog dial in the upper-left
comer that makes scrolling and navigation
easy, and the backlighting on the Clie is much
brighter than on the other PDAs. Although the
device is not as thin as the msoo or the Visor
Edge, it feels less cumbersome because of its
small dimensions.

The PEG-S320 has a slot for a Memory Stick
but no hot-sync cradle— you’ll have to make do
with the USB cable (included). That means you
have to use the Hot Sync app on the Clie to
perform this ritual: a small annoyance
compared to Sony’s overall snubbing of the
Mac market— Caf/7y/.u

m500

good news: Smatl and light. Fits
well in smaller hands. Finally, USB!
bad nows: Gigantic cradle. Expensive
unless your company is paying for it.

Visor Edge

good news: Great expansion
capabilities. Tiny cradle,
nows: Awkward design.

Clie PEG-S320

good nows: cheap. Actual device is
cool, bad news: no Mac support.
Third-party software required for hot
syncing on the Mac.

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Jukeinx

HD-MP3 ReoH'iler

hardware

Company: Archos

Contact: 949-453-1 1 21 , www.archos.com
Price: $349

Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS 8.6 or later.

USB Manager 1 .2 or later, USB port

W e*re all for MP3 players— they

don't skip, they're compact, and
you can easily swap songs to
and from them. The downsides? Most cost
an arm and a leg, come equipped with
minimal storage, and require an additional
chunk of change to upgrade. Then there's
the Archos Jukebox HD-MP3 Recorder, which
is in a league of its own.

What's it got that the others don’t? Not
only does it sound great, but it also packs a
whopping 6GB hard drive that can store
about 150 CDs' worth of MP3S. It also
includes a built-in microphone for recording
audio to MP3 on the fly, does double duty as
an external USB hard drive, and has more
bells and whistles than the Navy drum corps.

The Jukebox is slightly bigger and
heavier than some MP3 players (such as the
Rio 800). It features a backlit monochrome
LCD screen that displays eight lines of text,
an interface you navigate via push-button,
and a plethora of ports (including stereo
digital line I/O, stereo analog line I/O, and
USB). The jukebox houses four rechargeable
NiMH AA batteries (included) inside its twin
tubular outriggers, and ships with a set of
headphones, padded carrying case, USB
cable, power adapter and charger, and
MusicMatch jukebox software.

Though we eagerly anticipated the
jukebox’s whisking us away to hours of
musical oblivion, it had other plans for us.
Rrst, we had a difficult time opening its
tubular battery compartments. The manual
suggests using a flat-headed screwdriver to
pry open the covers— this ultimately worked,
but only after much prying, squeezing, and
cursing. The screwdriver also marred the
jukebox’s plastic body. Thankfully, you don't
have to remove the batteries for recharging.

Transferring MP3S to the jukebox
requires little brainpower: After installing

the software, just connect the device to your
Mac's USB port, and the jukebox appears on
your desktop like an external hard drive, so
you can upload MP3Svia drag and drop. The
jukebox’s LCD screen displays song titles
and other info. You can also organize your
music into playlists and listen to tunes in five
different play modes.

As for sound— this puppy rocks! Though
the headphones took some getting used to
(the speakers suspend from your ears like a
pair of eyeglasses), the sound is rich and
clear; the device has controls for bass,
treble, loudness, and bass boost; and you
can crank the volume without distortion.

The jukebox also records to MP3 in real
time directly from your stereo, radio, or
portable CD player via the various I/O ports,
or you can use the built-in mic for voice
recording. While our device-connected
recordings sounded great, recordings from
the built-in mic were weak— even with the
highest recording-quality and gain settings,
voices were barely audible above the
background noise of the room we were in.

The jukebox's main flaw is its insane
interface navigation. This loony-tune

No Napste*, No Cry

W e hear you loud and clean Where am I going to find 6GB of MP3S without
Napster? Get over it! Napster's so 2000. These days, the cool kids are using
Gnutella, a file-sharing protocol with no central search database— so it won't get pinched
like Napster did. Once available only to Linux hippies and PC thugs, Gnutella is now
accessible from the Mac clients listed below. See our November issue's Scrapbook
section, p22, for more on Gnutella, or check out www.gnutella.co.uk. Also, there's always
good ol' Usenet, now available at http://groups.google.com.

Mactella (free, www.cxc.com)

Limewire (free, www.limewire.com)

MacPhex (free, http://macxster.n3.net)

MP3 Rage ($24.95, www.chaoticsoftware.com)

just remember— you didn't hear any of this from us.

controller features three function buttons
and standard transport controls, all of which
double as navigation buttons. While the
menus and subsections are arranged
logically, we got a headache trying to
decipher how to jump from the recorder to
the player to the root menu. The function
buttons switch functions depending on
which screen you're in— sometimes you have
a back button; other times you have to press
the rewind button to go back. Our favorite
example of zany interface design is when
you have to press the Off button to go back
to the root menu. That’s downright
ridiculous. The cryptic manual does little to
make this frustrating experience any easier.

Still, the jukebox HD-MP3 Recorder is
extremely versatile, and it records and plays
superbly. If it weren't for its feckless interface
navigation, the jukebox would score our
highest honor— Kris Fong

good news: Great sound quality. Has
6GB of music and data storage. Good
battery life, bad R6WS: Confusing
interface navigation. Batteries difficult
to remove.

The Jukebox excels at playing tunes, recording sounds, and storing 6GB of data —
accessing everything is another story.

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Company: Markzware, Inc.

Contact: 800-300-3532 or 949-756-5100,

www.martaware.com

Price: $399 (SRP); $379.05 for download

Requirements: Powei1\/lac. Mac OS 7.6 or later, 16MB

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P rint designers know that errors

such as missing fonts and missing
or badly formatted images can cost
you big at output time. Preflight is the term
for manually checking and preparing files en
route to your service bureau; FlightCheck
spares you that tedium. Once used mainly by
Quark jockeys, today's FlightCheck supports
many other formats, including Acrobat PDF,
InDesign, and Microsoft Word documents.

The alternative to FlightCheck is hunting
down and opening every single supporting
file (including fonts, images, dictionaries.

FlightCheck’s interface is
intimidating, but its
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And if that sounds like a hassle, woe is you if
you receive unchecked files created by other
people. Thankfully, FlightCheck goes both
ways, scanning strange files for potential
problems before you open them.

RightCheck’s Ground Controls window
lets you pick which elements (including
images, fonts, colors, and trapping, plus
properties such as file format and status)
you want to check. FlightCheck scans the
document, recording its structure and
elements' status vis-a-vis your Ground
Controls settings, then lists anything
that didn’t pass muster, and gives
possible remedies.

Much as we tried, we couldn't slip
anything past FlightCheck— at least not
without adjusting the Ground Controls
settings to ignore certain settings— and
that's what preflight is all about.

The application’s interface seems busy at
first, but the pop-up help and electronic
documentation are full of shortcuts and tips.
FlightCheck is a thorough preflight tool that
can save you a lot of time and
headaches.— £/yse Chapman

news: Versatile. Thorough
and fast. Very user-configurable.
Excellent documentation,
bad news: intimidating interface.

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fun & games

Company: MacPIay

Contact: 972-386-7575, www.macplay.com
Price: $49.99

Requirements: 233MHz G3 or faster, Mac OS 8.6 or later,

1 28MB RAM, 2.6GB free hard disk space for full install

W hen we reviewed the first of
the Baldur’s Gate series (see
Reviews, Nov/oo, ps6), we
were torn— while the underlying game was
one of the strongest role-playing games
(RPGs) we*d seen, the Macintosh port was
so slipshod (the multiplayer game, one
of the key strengths of Baldur*s Gate on
the PC, was missing!) that we couldn’t
recommend it. Baldur’s Gate li is quite
another matter. This time, the game stands
out as the fine, highly detailed RPG its
creators intended it to be.

In the new installment, your character
awakens in a prison, where a wizard is
torturing you (the wizard seems to be
attempting to draw some sort of power from
you). Your first task is simply to escape the
prison, assisted by some old friends
(remember Boo, the miniature Giant Space
Hamster?) Once you escape the prison, you
find yourself in a massive city full of the .
intrigue, magic, evil, deception, and
treasure that is the bread and butter of
fantasy gaming.

The Journal helps
you keep track of
which quests you
complete — or which
ones you promised
to complete.

Baldur*s Gate II, like its predecessor, is
set in the Forgotten Realms— a world familiar
to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
aficionados. The game makes extensive use
of AD&D rules, which immediately gives
Balduris Gate one of the richest and most
detailed sets of spells, character classes,
weapons, and equipment of any game on the
market. Some familiarity with AD&D rules will
help you enormously as you play this game-
combat In particular can be somewhat
mystifying if you aren’t familiar with the rules
involving weapon specialization, speed, spell
casting, and so forth. Simply put, Baldur^s
Gate is a game for gamers— if you’ve never
played an RPG before, start with a simpler
one like Diablo II.

While Balduris Gate II does have an
intimidating learning curve, it’s a game
worth mastering. It is one of the rare RPGs
in which spells move beyond the usual
“cause damage or repair damage” model,
presenting you with real options during

combat. Do you rush forward and try to
wipe out your characters’ opponents In
close combat? Do you cast an entangling
spell in hopes of preventing a rush by your
enemies? Or should you just lead off with a
Fireball? (See “Baldur-Fu,” P53.)

Bald Ur’s Gate II (like its predecessor)
has an impressively nonlinear structure.
Many computer-based RPGs usheryou
through predetermined tasks in a set
order. That flies in the face of traditional
(noncomputer) RPG design, where players
must continually decide which tasks to
attempt, which ones to stall on, and which
to ignore entirely. Balduris Gate tends to
simply give you a large number of quests
and let you decide which ones to attempt
and in what order.

Early adopters of Mac OS X will
appreciate the fact that Baldur*s Gate ships
with a Mac OS X-natlve version, along with a
traditional Mac OS one. Play in the OS X
version is generally smooth and stable,
although we experienced occasional crashes
(which took us back to the Rnder, as you’d
expect of Mac OS X crashes), and problems
ejecting the CD during disc swaps. The game
is massive— a full installation will eat well
over 2.5GB of your hard drive.

Baldur’s Gate II is an impressive game.
While it won’t necessarily appeal to
beginners— or to those who simply prefer to
mow down opponents instead of exploring
a complex world— experienced RPG
addicts will appreciate the game’s
complexity and attention to
detail— Ian Sammis

good news: Rich, detailed RPG.

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news: unstable in Mac OS X.

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engine is based on that of
AD&D, where the players tell the
dungeon master what they want
their characters to do in
incredibly short, baby-step
Increments. Instead of trying a
Diablo ll~style, real-time charge,
pause the game, tell each Time out! Putting the game on pause is your
character what to do, resume secret weapon,
play and watch the results, then pause again.

D iablo players may find themselves a bit Intimidated the first time combat
breaks out in Baldufs Gate II. With six characters to control (simultaneously
in the single-player game!), the usual “click on opponents until they die”
strategy won’t work. So, how’s a gamer supposed to handle the baddies of the
Realms? Here are a few pointers:

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LaCIt USI CD-RWDrlw

hardware

Company: LaCie

Contact: 800-288-9919, www.lacie.com
Price: $329 (SRP)

Requirements: PowerMac, Mac OS 8.&-9.X, built-in
RreWireorUSB port

A mere four issues ago, we were

waxing poetic about how blazingly
quick the new crop of i6X CD
burners were. That’s old hat now. These
days, 24X burn speed is the buzzword in
the CD-RW Industry, and LaCie’s latest 24X
U&l CD-RW drive does not disappoint in
speed or performance.

The U&! (LaCie’s marriage of USB and
IEEE 1394 technologies) CD-RW features
a 24X write/ioX rewrite /40X read drive
wrapped in a silver casing with a translucent
cobalt faceplate and belly— a dramatic visual
Improvement over LaGe’s previous bare-

LaCie Improves its already outstanding
FireWire-USB CD-RW with a prettier face and faster innards.

faced 16X CD-RW {Reviews, Aug/oi, psi). The
drive ships with USB and RreWire cables
and comes bundled with Roxio Toast Lite
5.0,1. No Mac OS X support was available at
press time, but Roxio intends to post a Toast
Lite update on its Web site (www.roxio.com),
which will make the drive OS X friendly.

With dual FireWire and USB support,
LaCie’s U&l drive offers easy compatibility
with the computer masses should you
need to burn bytes from the Wintel
wasteland. And it does the job flawlessly.
RreWire burn speeds are quick— the U&l
copied 646.5MB of hard drive data in 4
minutes and 10 seconds, for example. The
drive cloned 586.9MB of CD data in just

4 minutes and 9 seconds, and it ripped
and burned a 60-minute audio CD in 10
minutes and 17 seconds.

Our one complaint? The drive’s fan is
noisy— not quite as noisy as a space heater,
but we could hear it over a cluster of cackling
coworkers. Of course, the handy-dandy on-
off switch will kill the white noise according
to your whims. Noise aside, LaCie’s U&l
CD-RW is even better than its
previous incarnation, and if s a
worthy buy— Kris Fong

goml news: Quick and consistent
burns. Supports FireWire and USB.
bait news: Noisy.

The Magic Sdioal Bus
Volcano Adniiture

kids’ stuff Gas and lava

Company: Microsoft and Scholastic
Contact; 71 6-871 -291 5 or 888-218-561 7, www.microsoft
conVkids or www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus
Price: $19.95 (ESP)

Requirements: 233MHz Power Mac or faster, Mac OS 8.1
or later. 32MB RAM. 15MB hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM

he twirly-haired, crackly-voiced Ms.
Frizzle is back, along with her
magic school bus and class of
overachieving kids. This time, they’re
exploring volcanoes. The Magic School Bus
Volcano Adventure offers a wide and healthy
range of education and entertainment. But
while activities are numerous, most skimp
on content, leaving you thirsting for more
information about our explosive little friends.

Activities include a world volcano map
that would be pretty cool if it bothered to

tell you anything about the volcanoes, and
a game in which you must save houses
from becoming lava lunch by putting down
blockades— if s mildly entertaining for
about 90 seconds. Other activities aren’t as
lame, such as the Frogger-type game where
you maneuver the magic bus across a lava
river by jumping on logs and the like.

The best activities offer more engaging
bits of knowledge in interactive ways. For
Instance, the make-your-own-volcano lab
lets you experiment with thicknesses of lava
and varying levels of gassiness to show

you how different types of volcanoes form.
Another activity feeds you fun facts about
four major volcanoes, such as how loud
they sounded when they erupted and
what kind of lava they spit out. Very cool.
Unfortunately, there’s just not enough very
cool stuff on this CD to engross

you for \on%— Cathy Lu

good news: Good mix of games and
education. A few interesting facts and
figures, batf IIGWB: A bit shallow on
content. Some activities are laaaame.

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GraphireZ

hardware

Company: Wacom

Contact: 800-922-9348, www.wacom.com
Price: $99.95 (SRP)

Requirements: USB-equipped Mac

W e like the Graphire a lot more
now than the last time we
reviewed it {Reviews, May/oo,
P58).The new Graphire2 pen, mouse, and
tablet package has better drivers, which
provide greater system stability and more
options for customizing your setup. Like
many vendors of peripherals, Wacom plans
to release Mac OS X drivers when Apple
releases Mac OS lo.i.

Installation was easy, though we
experienced occasional extension conflicts
until we updated the drivers to version
4.70-6 via Wacom’s support site (www
.wacom.com/productsupport). Starving

The GraphireZ package gives you 512 levels of
pressure sensitivity for $99.95— mouse included.

artists will appreciate the bundled software—
especially Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE and
Corel’s Painter Classic.

The pen, with an advertised 512 levels of
pressure sensitivity, is the real reason to
buy the Graphire2. Although we can’t attest
to experiencing all 512 levels, we found that
in addition to performing normal mouse
tasks, we could vary paint strokes using the
weighted brushes in Painter and edit pixel
by pixel in Photoshop. The pen comes with
a programmable DuoSwitch you can use to
double-click, assign keystroke commands,
or execute predefined macros. For example,
we customized our switches to check mail
in Qualcomm’s Eudora and control pen
sensitivity in Adobe Illustrator.

The cordless mouse is anatomically
perfect, with two programmable buttons

and a scroll wheel, but it’s still the weakest
link. It’s too large for the tablet, and feels
unresponsive and chintzy.

Given the flaky mouse and the tablet’s
small size, the Graphirez works best as a
complement to, not a replacement for, an
old-school mouse. The pressure-sensitive
pen is the main reason for considering the
Graphirez, and it’s reason enough
for any casual artist.

—Narasu Rebbapragada

good news: Affordable.

Programmable, bad nows: C

mouse. Limited tablet space.

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CaaoSc»N1Z4IU

hardware

Company: Canon

Contact: 800-652-2666, http://consumer.usa.canon.com
Price: $199 (SRP)

Requirements: G3 or taster, Mac OS 8.6 or later, native USB
{excludes add-on USB cards), 64MB RAM, CD-ROM drive

R emember when scanners were

bulky, beige, and generally boring?
We don’t, not after getting our mitts
on Canon’s latest CanoScan. And the
N1240U is more than just a pretty case: more
to the tune of i,200-by-2,400-dpi resolution
and 48-bit color capability. Like its two
Freakin' Awesome predecessors, the
CanoScan N656U and N1220U (Reviews,
Oct/oo, P54, and Jan/01, p68, respectively),

It scans, it stands, it recognizes 281 triiiion colors.

the CanoScan N1240U brings excellent form
and function to the desktop.

Essential to the N1240U is its upgrade
to a 48-bit (from 42-bit) CIS (Contact image
Sensor) that can recognize up to 281
trillion colors. That’s trillion with a capital
T, and it’s still the best-looking flatbed
scanner we’ve ever seen. If weren’t for
the fact that you can stow the N1240U
(complete with its attachable blue plastic
foot) vertically on its side, you might
even confuse the scanner with your
Titanium PowerBook.

The N1240U builds on the CanoScan
family’s traditionally generous software
bundle by adding Photoshop Elements
to the mix of OmniPage OCR, ArcSoft’s
PhotoStudio and PhotoBase, and the
ScanGearToolBox— a handy interface for
all the scanner software. This model brings
push-button convenience to a new level.
You can assign functions (such as scanning,
copying, emailing, and even CD-burning
to any of the three buttons on the front of
the scanner.

Color Images came out on the dark side
when we used the Ni24oU’s low-res Simple
mode, but this problem disappeared with
a little help from ScanGear’s Advanced
mode—or Photoshop Elements. Image
detail and sharpness were both very
impressive when we scanned color images
and line art at a high resolution.

The Ni24oU’s bus-powered USB
connection means one less power cord
cluttering your desk, but the tradeoff is
USB’s relatively slow transfer speed. In fact,
the software Issues a go-make-a-sandwich
warning when you’re about to scan a really
big file, such as a 5 by 7 image at 1,200 dpi.

The N1240U runs In OSX’s Classic mode,
and a Carbonized driver is due soon. It can’t
scan transparencies, and its 8.5 by 11.7 bed
size may be limiting, but the Ni24oU’s hip
look, high resolution, and higher color
capability make it plenty of scanner for most
of us, plus it’s easy enough for your dog to
use— Leigh Webber

news: 48 bits equal 281 trillion
colors. Easy, one-toucb scanning.
Sleek, svelte design. Had iiavins:

Can’t handle slides or transparencies.
Large scans slow over USB.

It's BatchaUe!

I f you scan a lot of snapshots, A/lulti-
Photo Mode can save you time. Place
several images on the scanner, click the
Scan button, and the CanoScan
automatically scans, crops, deskews,
and saves each of the images
individually. There’s no sheet feeder
available, so unless you’ve got a trained
monkey, batch scanning Is limited to
what you can Fit on the 8.5 by 11.7 bed.

Programmable buttons put scan, copy, email,
and other functions a click away.

Advanced Mode offers several controls for tweaking tonal range.

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Timbuktu Pro 6

utilities

Company: Netopia

Contact: 800-485-5741 or 510-814-5000,
www.netopia.com

Price: $94.95 download: $99.95 boxed
Requirements: Mac OS 8.6-9.X, or Mac OS X 10.0.4
or later (separate versions supplied for each); 1 6MB
RAM; 1 SMB free hard disk space

T imbuktu has been around forever,
and a veritable army of savvy users
relies heavily upon it for remotely
controlling and maintaining computers.

Each and every Timbuktu junkie should be
dancing in the streets right about now,
because Timbuktu Pro is available for Mac
OSX. For the uninitiated, it*s an easy,
secure way to tap Mac OS X’s vaunted Unix
networking capabilities.

Timbuktu allows you to control any
computer— Mac or PC, desktop client or
server— remotely, either via the Internet
(TCP/IP) or over a local network. As long as
both computers (yours and the target
machine) have Timbuktu installed, you can
control the remote computer, transfer data,
or chat (voice chat included). If you have a
remote Web server, Timbuktu is
indispensable for secure file transfer and for
remote configuration and general
maintenance.

Timbuktu Pro 6 ships with two versions,
one for Mac OS 8.6 or later and one for Mac
OS 10.0.4 or later. These are identical,
except that the OS X version doesn't allow
AppleTalk connectivity. New features in
version 6 include the ability to copy
multigigabyte files, as well as data
encryption between host and guest
computers for improved security.

Configuring Timbuktu is simple and
using it is even simpler. Netopia,

Timbuktu’s developer, allows you to
register your email address with its servers,
so other users need only remember a
simple email address instead of an IP
number, which Is typically 8 to 12 digits
\ong.This comes in especially handy if you
have a dynamic IP address.

What about connecting through my
Airport Base Station or Linksys router, you
say? It’s possible to connect through a
firewall or access router with Timbuktu-just

X on X: Control any other Timbuktu-equipped machine from the comfort of your own Mac.

open the appropriate port (Timbuktu uses
port 407 by default) in your firewall. If you
use AirPort, you can use the AirPort Admin
Utility— just choose Port Mapping from the
Network section in the Base Station
Configuration window. (See “Timbuktu You,”
below, for links to additional setup help.)

Timbuktu Pro’s price may be a bit steep
for casual users— especially considering
that VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
software, which accomplishes many of the
same tasks, is available free on the Web.
However, Timbuktu is much more user-

friendly, and since you can use Timbuktu’s
Intercom feature to transmit voice back and
forth between Timbuktu-equipped
computers (even ones with Timbuktu 2000
for Windows), you can offset the price by
saving a few bucks on long-distance phone
bills.— 8t/zZo//er

news: Plays well with older
and Windows versions. Audio
Intercom chat. Easy, secure remote
access, bad nSWS: No AppieTaik
connectivity in Mac OS X version.

G ot a dial-up, DHCP, or PPPoE Internet connection that assigns you a different IP
address every time you log on? No worries: Timbuktu’s Internet Locator lets guest
users connect to your machine by entering your email address, which shouldn’t change
nearly as often as a dynamic IP does.

Turn it on by choosing Preferences from the Setup menu, selecting the IP Locator tab,
then entering your email address in the designated box. With Locator enabled, every
time you fire up Timbuktu the program transmits your current IP address to Netopia’s
designated server, which then dishes it out when other users request access via your
email address.

Foolproof? Not quite; Internet Locator has some Issues with network firewalls and proxy
servers (like Apple’s AirPort), but Netopia’s FAQ page (www.netopia.com/support/faqs
/software/tbzmacfaq.html) andTechnote page (www.netopia.com/support/technotes
/software/tbzmac) are chock-full of information to help you get connected.

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your enemy, and plan your fate.

Shareware Developers Take the Lead

s klll-or-be-killed games continue to infiltrate
the Mac gaming market, if s refreshing to see
the beginnings of an RPG (role-playing game)
resurgence. RPGs such as Baldur’s Gate and Fallout, once
stalwarts in the gaming Industry, have been on the decllne-
until now. Several developers are at the helm of this
new trend, but this time ifs not the big
companies— Ifs the little guys.

Role-Playing for the Masses

MMORPG, or massively multiplayer
online role-playing game, isn’t exactly
a familiar term to the average Mac
gamer. This new form of RPG lets
hundreds of players from ail over the
world interact with each other rather
than with computer-generated friends
and foes. Just enter an online world,
create your own character, interact with
other players on your quest, and exit
when you want to—though your

character may be
absent, the game ****^^^^ Garendall reminds you there’s
rontinijpq much nothing quite like swinging a blade Into the
as the world does a" enemy,

when you go to sleep each night.

For over a year, PC folks have been spending their lives
wrapped up in a continuous online game called EverQuest.
There’s no longer any need to feel pangs of jealousy, though—
shareware developer Freeverse Software (www.freeverse.com)
is bringing its online, never-ending game, Arcane Arena, to the
Mac. Currently in beta, this server-client-based fantasy RPG
should satisfy folks who hate to see games come to an end.
Log on, and you’ll find yourself gaining points and money by
defeating monsters, buying yourself some snazzy weapons
and armor, and talking with other players in real time (thanks
to the built-in chat, which is similar to instant messaging).

At press time, Blizzard Entertainment announced its own
MMORPG called World of Warcraft. While Blizzard only
announced this game for the PC market, the company may
still bring it to the Mac. Lef s hope it does.

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Artfsfs Statement

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half an hour without landing!— lours PtJ, Plante

Send your bast screenshots to Jetters#rT^3caddictcom with the subject line
“Screenshot of the Month” if you crave fame and glory (or at least fleeting
satisfaction upon seeing your screenshot in a magazine).

Role-Playing for Hermits

If life among the Web masses makes you feel bashful,
perhaps you’ll be more comfy tackling a solo adventure.
Ambrosia Software (www.ambrosiasw.com) and Beenox
(www.beenox.com) have released Pillars of Garendall. This
classic-style, single-player RPG has you playing a hero on a
mission to save your city from destruction.

Beenox created Pillars using its own Coldstone Game
Engine, a still-in-beta (at press time) RPG creation tool. With
the Coldstone Game Engine software, any ambitious Mac user
can design games that take place anywhere, such as In outer
space or in a medieval kingdom, complete with custom
windows, graphics, sound and music, cut scenes, and more,
Ifyou’re looking to see the RPG thrive once again, get yourself
a copy of Coldstone and develop the next big RPG yourself.

— Andrew Tokuda

Forget your trigger finger. Arcane Arena lets you take a whiff of
fresh air from time to time.

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Fop Tamle. If s Destineep

For Mac Gamers, It’s Time to Play!

A ny longtime Mac addict oughtta know who Peter Tamte is—
especially if you’re a self-described gaming freak. For the
uninitiated, Tamte has held illustrious positions such as VP of Bungie
Software Products (before Microsoft bought Bungie), founder of the
hugely successful Mac gaming company MacSoft, and manager of
Apple’s consumer marketing affairs (under some guy named Steve
Jobs). We last spoke with Tamte {Powerplay, Oct/oo, p68) as he made
the leap from Bungie to launch his own Destineer Studios (where he
currently holds the title of president). We were curious to see what he
and his company have been up to lately.— /(r/s Fong

MA: Destineer Studios appears to have split Into two companies—

Destineer and Bold. What is the distinction between the two?

PT: Destineer Studios is the label through which we are creating our
original games. Bold is the label we will use when bringing other
companies’ games to the Macintosh.

Mac addicts banging on game publishers’ gates, begging for the Mac version?
You can thank Tamte and company for porting Age of Empires II.

Many of the decisions I’ve made about which games to bring to the
Mac, even from the beginnings of MacSoft, were based on my wanting
to play a particular game on my Mac.

Avoid those embarrassing stares if you suck on the green in real life— you
can hide your handicap behind a Mac screen in Links 2002.

MA: in your opinion, what does the future hold for Mac gaming?

PT: I think the most important things about the future of Mac gaming are
Mac OS X and the coolness of Apple’s new hardware. Once Mac OS X is
fully functional, there is a really good chance it’s going to cause a lot
more people— especially people from the Unix and Linux communities—
to be interested in the Macintosh as a solution. Also, Apple’s newest
machines, especially the TiBook and IBook, are really showing people
how much cooler Apple’s computers are than the Wintel clones. In feet,
I’ve even thought about switching back to my old black G3 PowerBook
on airplane flights because every time I pull out my Titanium, I get a line
of people next to my seat asking 20 questions about it. I never get any
work done.

MA: What games do you plan to ship In coming months for both Destineer
and Bold?

PT: Rrst, we will bring many of Microsoft’s most popular games to the
Macintosh, such as Age of Empires II and Links 2002, which will both
ship late this fall. Second, we are creating original
games for Macs, PCs, and video consoles using our
^ own proprietary 3D technology, which we are
developing in-house. We don’t have any
immediate plans to announce more titles before
this date [press time], but more will be coming.

MA: You’ve had a long, successful career in Mac
gaming. What drives you to stick with this field and
the Mac platform?

PT: I think I do things out of love first and money
second. While there is money to be made
publishing Macintosh games, the real reason I’ve
been so focused on the Mac is that I am one of
^ those freaks who thinks he is saving the world
from mediocrity by bringing interesting
things to the Macintosh community.

MA: Do you think Apple needs to refine its products in any way to be more
game friendly?

PT: Sure, technology moves at a fest pace. Hardware and software design
is a moving target, so we’re always communicating things to Apple
privately about what we’d like to see in future hardware and software.

The most Important things Apple can do for us is to keep making
progress on Mac OSX, which they’re doing, and sell more computers.

Beyond that, the most important thing for Mac gamers Is up to us
publishers. We need to start bringing out the most exciting Mac games
near-simultaneously with the Wintel versions. For example, Destineer
will be releasing the Mac version of Links Championship Edition 2002
within just a few weeks of the Wintel release, and we will be shipping
Gold Edition of Age of Empires II within just a few weeks of when
Microsoft ships it for Wintel. I hope we can do this with a number of
titles during 2002.

MA: Which of your upcoming games excites you the most and why?

PT: Each game excites me for different reasons. I love empire-building
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mission is “saving the world from mediocrity.”

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Sometimes faking it is the best means to an end.

This stuff’s for
the pros.

It’ll take some
effort, but you
can do it

The fundamentals.
If you will.

Build this
image— find
the indhnduai
raw images
and a

Photoshop 6.0
tryout on
The Disc.

Here, we show you how to make your
vision a reality by constructing a
photomontage from a handful of images.
We not only demonstrate how Parke created
the above panel from three photos, but
also give you a couple ways to fake
elements in a scene if photographing the
real-life situation is impossible. We use
Photoshop in this how-to, but you can
follow these steps using the image editor
of your choice.

The circumstance mentioned is an
actual situation. Digital artist Steven Parke
was hired to illustrate /, Paparazzi* s
storyline photographically with individual
panels, like those seen in comic books.
Because the book’s plot unfolds in a dark,
dramatically lit, surrealistic setting, straight
photography wouldn’t cut it. Building a
photomontage— an image created by
layering and fusing together individual
photos— does the job.

Build a

S omeone hands you a storyboard
sketch of DC Comics’ first-ever
photographic novel, /, Paparazzi
(Vertigo/ DC). The premise: Protagonist
jake “Monster” McGowran strolls through
New York City’s Central Park, dwarfed by a
ghostly obelisk, when suddenly the clouds
begin to swirl oddly, opening a hole to the
sky. Your assignment: Photograph this
scenario. Great, how on earth are you going
to pull off this one?

Easily. Just fabricate it. With image
editors such as Adobe Photoshop ($609,
www.adobe.com), Deneba Canvas ($375,
www.deneba.com), and ArcSoft PhotoStudio
($99.99, www.arcsoft.com), you can use
layers of images to build a scene that would
be impossible to capture in real life.

by Steven Parke and Kris Fong

WHAT YOU NEED

• Photoshop, Photoshop tryout
(on The Disc), or a comparable
image editor

• Tutorial photos (on The Disc)

ROUND UP THE RAW IMAGES (FIND TM ON THE DISC)

P arke’s photomontage is constructed from three images set into a paneled
guide, which serves as a frame for the final image (like the frame panels seen
In traditional comic books). Photographer Stephen John Phillips shot the photo of
the main character, but Parke still needed an obelisk and swirling clouds. Luckily,
Parke found an obelisk only a mile away from his house and snapped a picture of
it late at night, making it easier to blend the image with the other dark elements of
the photomontage.

Creating the cloud element required a
little more artistic ingenuity. Parke used
a stock photo of a hurricane eye for its
swirling properties, knowing he could
manipulate it in Photoshop to achieve the
cloud effect he required.

Now’s your chance to build Parke’s
image on your own. Locate the three raw
image files and the minirule guide in the
Photomontage Tutorial folder on The Disc
and copy them to your hard drive. Then
fire up Photoshop ora comparable image
editor, and follow Parke’s directions.

Mope on /,

B y the time you read this,

/, Paparazzi, which
features the artwork shown in
this tutorial, will be in stores.

This hardbound graphic novel
features full-color panels of
photography and reads like a
movie. The noirish storyline
follows New York paparazzo
Jake “Monster” McGowran in his pursuit of
celebrities and the perfect picture.

The book was designed completely on Macs
and combines traditional film and digital
photographs. You’ll find several celebrity cameos
from the music, film, and art worlds sprinkled
through the pages, plus some actors morphing
into odd reptilian creatures...no kidding!

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PHOTO COURTESY OF PAT MCGREAL/STEPHEN JOHN PHILUPS/STEVEN PARKE. VERTIGO/DC COMICS

PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER

1 Paste the Obelisk into the Guide

In Photoshop, first open the guide file, minirule64.psd (this
layered file has a background layer and a frame layer and
serves as our page guide), and then the obelisk.tif file. Select the
entire obelisk image (Command-A), copy it (Command-C), click the
minirule64.psd image, and then paste the obelisk into a new layer
(Command-V). Rename this new layer by double-clicking it in the
Layers palette and typing Obelisk in the Name field. Save this new file
as a Photoshop document (PSD). This file is the master page. Move the
Obelisk layer below the frame guide by dragging it in between the
Background and Frame layers in the Layers palette. Then move the
obelisk image using the move tool so it’s centered in the top frame of
the guide (as pictured).

Copy Monster into
the Guide

Next, open the monster.tif file— the
protagonist Select the lasso tool, set Feather
in the Lasso Options palette to o pixels, and
use your mouse to draw an outline around
the entire figure. Copy your selection
(Command-C), go back to the master page
file, and paste the selection into a new layer
(Command-V). Rename this \ayer Monster
and move it below the Frame layer but above
the Obelisk layer in the Layers palette.

3 Scale Down Monster

Scale down Monster to fit the scene. To
do this, select the Monster layer, and
then select Free Transform from the Edit
menu— a bounding box surrounding the figure
will appear, with eight handles (shown as tiny
squares). By grabbing and dragging these
handles, you can adjust the figure’s size and
rotation. To size it down, click any corner
handle, hold down the Shift key (to maintain the size ratio), and drag the
bounding box inward until Monster has the figure-to-surroundings ratio
shown. Next, click the middle portion of the bounding box and drag the
figure to the left of the obelisk. Then place your cursor just outside one of
the comer handles and rotate the figure counterclockwise so that he
stands at an angle to the obelisk. Double-click inside the bounding box
to save these changes.

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Add Color to Monster

Next, Monster needs to change from black and white to color
so he matches his surroundings. Under the Image menu,
select Adjust, then Hue/Saturation. Check the Colorize box, and move
the Hue slider to 29 and the Saturation slider to 15. Then click OK.
These settings give our character a sepia tone, which complements the
obelisk’s orangy glow.

: Add the Hurricane to the Sky

The sky is the last photographic element to add to the master

page. Open hurricane.tif, use the rectangular marquee tool
(it looks like a dotted rectangle) to select a good amount of the
swirling clouds while keeping the hurricane eye centered, copy this
area (Command-C), click the master page image, and then paste the
hurricane eye into a new layer (Command-V). Rename this layer Sky
and place it under the Frame layer but above the Monster layer in the
Layers palette. To give the illusion that a swirling sky is opening
upward, flip the Sky layer upside down by selecting Transform from the
Edit menu, then Flip Vertical. Squish the layer to give the hurricane
swirl a more elliptical shape by selecting Free Transform under the Edit
Menu and dragging down one of the upper-corner handles of the
bounding box a little. Then position the hurricane eye directly over the
top of the obelisk— set the Sky layer’s Opacity to 50 percent in the
Layers palette to see the position of the obelisk underneath the eye,
and then bring the layer back to 100 percent. Double-click inside the
bounding box to save the change.

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S Add Cloud

Contrast with
Curves

The Sky layer’s tone is a little flat,
so adjust the Curves settings to
increase the contrast fora more
dramatic effect Under the Image
menu, select Adjust, then Curves.

In the Curves window, add two
anchor points to the diagonal line
by clicking on two different parts
of the line, dividing the line into
equal thirds. Click and drag down
each point so that the line
resembles a steep incline as
shown to increase the contrast and
dramatically darken the overall tone. Then click OK.

7 Desaturate
the Clouds
for Drama

The Sky is now too bright to
be menacing (adjusting
Curves tends to affect
color), so tone down
the color. Open the
Hue/Saturation box again,
move the Saturation slider
down to “59, and click OK.
Then move the Sky layer
underneath the Monster
and Obelisk layers but
above the Background layer
in the Layers palette.

S Add a Layer Mask for Cleanup

Time to tidy upl Click the Monster layer In the Layers palette-
notice how messy your cutout (and ours) is? Also, you won’t
need any part of the image that lies outside the top panel on the frame
guide. To get rid of the extra junk, first select the rectangular marquee
tool and draw a box around the parts of Monster that you want to keep
(everything within the panel). Then click the layer mask Icon (the
dotted circle In the square at the bottom of the Layers palette)— this
will masky or hide, the area not selected.

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The layer mask (the icon that appears to the right of the image
thumbnail) allows you to either hide or reveal image data,
depending on the color you use with any painting tool— black hides,
white reveals. To clean up the edges of the character, use a small
brush (either the airbrush or the paintbrush) with black paint and paint
overall background areas to hide them on the Monster layer mask. If
you hide (erase) too much, select white paint as the foreground color
and paint the image back in as needed.

Create the Swirl Effect Using a
Layer Mask

Next, create an obelisk-piercing-the-swirling-skies
effect. Click the Obelisk layer in the Layers palette and change its
Opacity to 8 o percent to see a bit of the Sky layer underneath, which
will serve as a guide. Then create a layer mask for the Obelisk layer by
clicking the layer mask icon. To create the tempestuous sky effect, click
the Obelisk layer’s layer mask (the icon to the right of its thumbnail),
select the airbrush tool with black paint, and paint an oval shape that
follows the swirl of the clouds at the top of the obelisk. (Don’t mask
out the obelisk itself— if you do so accidentally, switch to white paint
and paint the obelisk back in.) Bring the Opacity back up to loo
percent to check your work.

Shape the
Clouds with
a Brush

To give the sky more shape and to
emphasize its cloud structure,
mask out portions of the Obelisk
layer, using wispy paint strokes in
the same direction as the clouds.

Use varying levels of Opacity in the brush’s Options palette for a
feathery effect. Mask out a good-size doughnut hole above the obelisk
to give the illusion that the clouds are rippling away from its point,
indicating that something is about to descend from above. Mask out
selections between the tree branches to keep the continuity (this
requires patience!). To get a better perspective on the relationship
between the obelisk and sky, temporarily turn off the Monster layer-
click the layer visibility icon (it looks like an eye) on the Monster layer
in the Layers palette to toggle that layer on or off.

Group All Layers
Into a Set

^ When you're satisfied, place

the individual layered images into a layer set,
which lets you move and adjust layers as a
group. Click the palette options button (the
triangle in the upper-right corner of the Layers
palette) and choose New Layer Set. Drag each
photo layer (not the Frame layer) into the set
folder in the Layers palette, making sure to
keep the layers in the same order. From here,
you can make adjustments to the entire image.

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click OK in the New Layer dialog box to open the Hue/Saturation
window. Check the Colorize box, set the Hue slider to 283 and the
Saturation slider to 12, and click OK. Your entire image will look
purplish. Don't worry— we're not done yet.

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On the Hue/Saturation layer in the Layers palette, create
a layer mask by clicking the layer mask icon. Use this
layer mask to bring back some of the montage’s original color. Select a
small brush with black paint; in the mask, hide portions of the purple-
colored obelisk and Monster so their highlight coloring is prominent,
but their shadows are tinged purple. Mask out small portions between
the tree branches to reintroduce some of the reddish sky behind the
obelisk, too.

For emphasis, add a few stars in the clear sky visible through the
cloud opening. Under the Layer menu, select New, then Layer to create
a new layer. In the New Layer dialog box, set the Mode to Lighten In the
drop-down menu and click OK. Position this new layer on top of the
Obelisk layer in the Layers palette. Set white as the foreground color in
the Tool palette, select the airbrush tool, and then speckle the clear sky,
using varying small brush sizes. When you're satisfied, select Flatten
Image from the Layer menu and save the image as a TIFF file.

Mission ImpossiUe? Try This!

F ooling the eye is every Photoshop wizard’s specialty. While some
of the image-editing trickery you see is blatantly obvious—
especially in magazine ads— other manipulations are virtually
undetectable. Because capturing a particular Image in real life isn't
always a possibility, graphic artists have relied on a few homespun
Photoshop secrets to fake a scene. Here are two tricks to try in your
next montage.

Crowd Scenes

Gathering
large groups
of people and
placing them
in a scene is a
hard task to
accomplish.

But if you have
just a handful
of people for

subjects or a series of Individual photos, you can effectively piece
together a crowd in a kind of jigsaw puzzle.

Rrst, take a photo of the background scene you want to use,
without any people In front of it. Then take snapshots of the people
on hand, with each person posing appropriately for your particular
scenario, whether they're running from something, looking surprised,
or whatever. Change their clothing, vary the groups of people, and
shoot both close-ups and distant shots for more realism. Layer your
collection of people pics into the background layer, placing the
distant shots toward the back of the scene and the close-ups in the
foreground. If you see any noticeable repetition of characters, blur the
faces incrementally, with clear images in the foreground and blurrier
ones in the background.

Our example party scene full of actors, directors, musicians,
and artists doesn't really exist— this gathering was created using
individual shots of celebrities, some taken close up and others at a
distance. Parke photographed the background at a local club, and
then layered in each celebrity one at a time, placing each person in an
appropriate spot according to their body positioning. (The photos of
janeane Garofalo, Richard Belzer, and Patton Oswalt are all head
shots with body doubles.)

impossible Angles

Perhaps you have a need to take
a photo when it's impossible to
position your camera at the right
angle— like shooting someone
in an elevator from above. In
such a case, just find an object
with similar properties and fake
the setting with Photoshop.

To create a frame, Parke
photographed the inside of his
mailbox, which had boundaries
similar to that of an actual
elevator box, with a wide-angle lens. Next, Stephen Jon Phillips shot
the four inner panels of a freight elevator as well as the floor; Parke
then layered these images onto the four sides of the mailbox image
and distorted the elevator images a bit to give the illusion of depth.
Finally, Parke added Monster as the elevator passenger.

Artist Steven Parke has spent the last seven years as a one-man art department for recording artist Prince.

DEC/01

MacAddict

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by Leigh Webber

Hihli a Me on Any
Bpoadtand Line

F ighting over the remote control is
old hat These days, people
wage battles over custody
of the lone household Internet
connection. If you’re lucky enough
to have a high-speed Internet
connection—either DSL or cable—
your arm-wrestling days are over.

Rather than spring for a costly second
hookup, you can piggyback your Mac
onto your housemate’s broadband
connection and invade the Internet
simultaneously. All it takes is a small hardware
investment and a simple crash course in networking
know-how to get up and running.

Here, we show you howto connect multiple computers
to a single DSL or cable-modem connection so you can get more
baud for your buck— plus firewall protection against hackers.

Rrst, you need to subscribe to either DSL or cable broadband
service. Those of you with pokey dial-up connections can technically
(though not necessarily effectively) share Internet service (checkout
Vicomsoft’s Internet Gateway software— $149, www.vicomsoft.com—
for this alternative), but if speed is what you’re after, broadband is a
must. Depending on where you live, you may or may not have a
choice between DSL or cable service— check to see what’s available
in your area and sign up.

You also need a router to divvy up the bandwidth from your DSL or
cable line to your various Macs. This small piece of hardware

connects multiple
computers to a high-speed
modem, splits the bandwidth,
and allocates it to all the
connected computers (see “Which
Router to Take,” P7i, for a list of Mac-
compatible routers). Don’t forget to
pick up enough Ethernet (RJ-45) cables to
connect the router to your DSL or cable
modem, and each computer to the router.

A router functions as a middleperson
between your computers, or LAN (local-
area network), and the Internet, or WAN
(wide-area network). The WAN talks directly to the
router through your modem connection; the router
then talks to your LAN. Thus, the Internet and your
computers never talk to each other directly without going
through the router.

Routers offer greater security against Internet Invaders— they
provide a fixed Internet Protocol (IP) address while doling out
distinct IP addresses to each connected computer. This
procedure Is known as Network Address Translation (NAT). Each
networked computer essentially hides behind the fixed identity
of the router. No outside computer on the WAN can see the
addresses of the computers behind the router, so the router
functions as a firewall to protect your computers from the beady
gaze of hackers. If hackers can’t see your computers, they can’t
hack into them.

WHAT YOU NEED

Router

High-speed Internet service
(DSL or cable)

Ethernet cabies (RJ-45)

LAN?

Not privy to networking
lingo? Here’s our
Internet-terminology
cheat sheet to keep you
sounding smart around
the IT department’s
water cooler.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

A technology that assigns a different (dynamic)
IP address to a computer every time it
connects to the Internet, thus providing greater
security. DHCP also abolishes the need to
enter an IP address manually for every new
user you add to the network.

Firewall A system of hardware, software,
or both that prevents unauthorized access
to or from a network.

IP (Internet Protocol) Address A unique
number (for example, 196.168.11) that
identifies a computer’s network identity.

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SET UP YOUR NETWORK

1 Connect the Router to
the Modem

Once you have a router, connecting it to
the rest of your setup is as easy as plugging in a
phone. Rrst, shut off all your equipment— Macs,
high-speed modem, and router. Then connect
your modem to the WAN port on the router
using an Ethernet cable (see “What the WAN Is
LAN?” for our networking lingo decoder ring).

Connect your DSL or cable modem
(above right) to the router’s WAN port
(below right) with an Ethernet cable.

2 Connect Your

Computers to the
Router

Next, connect each computer via its Ethernet
port to one of the LAN slots on the router using
more Ethernet cables. If you run out of LAN
ports before running out of computers, use the
Uplink port on the router and attach an
additional hub (the Linksys BEFSR41
router— pictured at right— can support 253
users on one DSL or cable line). Rnally, plug the
router into an AC outlet and power up the
router, the modem, and your Mac.

Connect each computer (above) to one of the
router’s LAN ports (below) with Ethernet cables.

CONRGURE THE ROUTER

adly, not all routers are created equal. Each usually comes equipped with its own
specific setup protocol and a poorly written manual to help you stumble through the
ordeal. Luckily, router setup is the same for both DSL and cable users. Which computer you
choose to set up first is up to you— there’s no administrator or head computer. Though your
router’s specific setup may vary, following are the general steps for configuring a router. Note:
Some Internet apps, such as America Online or your ISP’s setup software, may conflict with
your router’s settings. If they do, uninstall these troublemakers.

Set Up TCP/IP

start with your Mac. Under the Apple menu,
select Control Panels, then TCP/IP to open
the settings window. Select Ethernet from the
Connect Via drop-down menu, and select Using
DHCP Server from the Configure menu. In the DHCP
Client ID field, type your router’s default IP address—
you can usually find this in the manual. DHCP
enables dynamic addressing— though the IP address
of your router always stays the same, the router
gives each networked computer a different address
every time it connects to the Internet. Enter the IP address in the TCP/IP window.

WMch Router to Take

R outers come in a variety of flavors: They
can be wired or wireless; they can
support Macs, PCs, or both platforms; and
they can work with cable and/or DSL services.
Before buying a router, read its specs carefully
to make sure it supports the features you
need. If you’re connecting multiple computers
to one broadband line, your router should
house enough LAN ports to connect your
entire network.

You can connect Macs, PCs, and Linux
boxes to the same router and share a single
DSL or cable line. Each computer must have
an Ethernet port, TCP/IP, and any Web
browser. Here are a few Mac-friendly routers
to consider:

Apple AirPort

$299 (SRP) for AirPort Base Station, $99 (SRP)
for AirPort Card; www.apple.com/airport

Wireless, Mac-only hub. Requires one
AirPort Base Station plus an AirPort card for
each Mac.

Netline Broadband Gateway/4s

$129.99 (SRP); www.proxim.com
Wired, four-port cable and/or DSL router.
Compatible with Macs and PCs.

Asante FriendlyNet

$379 (SRP); www.asante.com

Wired or wireless, three-port cable and/or
DSL router with AirPort support. Compatible
with Macs and PCs.

Macsense XRouter Aero

$299 (SRP); www.xsense.com

Wired or wireless, four-port cable and/or DSL

router. Compatible with Macs and PCs.

Netline Wireless Broadband
Gateway

$299.99 (SRP); www.proxim.com

Wireless, cable and/or DSL router.
Compatible with Macs and PCs.

Linksys EtherFast BEFSR41

$99 (street); www.iinksys.com

Wired, four-port cable and/or DSL router.

Compatible with Macs and PCs.

ISP (Internet Service Provider) The company that sells NAT (Network Address Translation) This Internet standard provides a type of firewall

you access to the Internet. Some of the most popular ISPs to protect your network of computers against the outside world. It provides one set

include Earthlink, AOL, DIrectTV DSL, and AT&T Cable. of dynamic IP addresses on the LAN for your network, and a different IP address for

your Internet-connected router.

LAN (local-area network) A network of computers, set up

in a home or office, that allows you to share local PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) A specification some ISPs use to

resources like printers, file servers, and the Internet. connect Ethernet users to the Internet via a shared broadband connection.

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2 Set Up the Router

Next, access your router^s Web-based setup page by typing its default IP Address into
Netscape’s or Explorer’s address field. In the Setup page, the top two fields call for a
host and domain name. Some ISPs require you to fill in these fields with pass codes your ISP
supplies. Otherwise, leave these fields blank.

In the LAN IP Address field, type in the router’s default IP Address and then select the Subnet
Mask number, also contained In your router’s manual. In the WAN IP Address field, check the
Obtain An IP Address Automatically
button to enable this function.

Some DSL ISPs require you to
choose PPPoE (Point-to-Point
Protocol over Ethernet) to
connect—check with your DSL
service provider to see if this is the
case. If so, next to Login, check the
PPPoE button and then enter the
user name and password you
selected through your DSL service.

If you’re a cable subscriber or if
your DSL service does not use
PPPoE, select Disable (user name
and password not required).

If you want to dictate when your
computer connects to the Internet,
choose Connect On Demand in the
setup window. If you want a 24/7,
always-on connection, select Keep
Alive. Keep in mind that It’s better
to take your computer offline when
you aren’t using it to better protect

your network. Configure the router via the manufacturer’s Web site.

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users wilt be able to use the router's default settings without
making any changes. If you require help during configuration,
please see the user guide.

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4 Reset and Reboot

To get your network up and running, reset the power on your DSL or cable modem and
then restart your Mac. To set up the other computers on your network (again, you can
set up various types— Mac, PC, Linux, and so forth), make sure to connect each computer to the
router and set each one’s TCP/IP settings to Configure Using DHCP Server (see step i in
“Configure the Router,” p/i). Restart each computer, and your network’s good to go.

What the

WANi.

LAN?

CONTIKUED FROM P71

Router A device
that allows you to
network local
computers and
connect them to
another network,
such as the internet

TCP (Transmission
Control Protocol)

A network procedure
that allows two
computers to
transmit and receive
streams of data.

WAN (wide-area
network) A network of
computers that spans a
large geographical area,
connecting computers
around the world (the
Internet, for example).

DHCP Dilemma

E ven though most routers work
cross platform, they were
originally designed with Windows in
mind. This sometimes causes DHCP
problems on non-Windows
operating systems, which can
translate to long waits when loading
a Web page or make your router
malfunction— even if you’ve set the
configurations correctly by the book.

If you encounter either of these
problems, disable DHCP and assign
static IP addresses to all the
computers on your network. This
won’t impair your firewall since the
router still displays a different IP
address to the outside world, not
the IP addresses you assign to your
computers. Here’s how to do this:

1. Log back on to the router’s Web-
based setup page. Click the DHCP
tab, disable DHCP Server, and
click Apply.

2. Launch the TCP/IP control panel
on your Mac. Instead of configuring
via DHCP, select Manually from the
Configure drop-down menu.

3. In the IP Address field, type in a
new IP address— this should be the
router’s IP address followed by two
additional numbers of your choice.
For example, if your router’s IP
address Is 192.168.1.1, assign a
unique IP address to each
networked computer, such as
192.168.1.101 or 192.168.1.102-
Keep the Subnet Mask number (the
one that comes with your router)
the same.

4. Enter your router’s IP address
(the same one you use to access
the Web setup page) in the Router
Address field.

5. The Name Server Address field
should already display the
numerical Web address of your
ISP’s domain server. If this field Is
blank, consult your ISP’s literature
and enter its domain server
addresses here.

6. Repeat these steps for each
computer on your network, making
sure to assign a different IP address
to every computer.

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Q Sherlock is a great tool whenever I
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Mac, but it takes forever to search a large
AppleShare volume. Is there a way to make
Sherlock search only certain folders instead
of an entire volume?

A You betcha! Not only is Sherlock a
powerful tool, many Mac users
don’t realize how flexible it Is. Rather than
waiting for Sherlock to search through every
nook and cranny of a substantial volume,
you can fine-tune your search by simply
dragging and dropping any folder or group
of folders onto the Sherlock window.
Sherlock will then only pull results from
these designated directories.

Q l love using Connectix’s Virtual Game
Station to play PlayStation games
on my Mac, but I hate using my Mac’s
keyboard as a controller. Can I use a
PlayStation controller on my Mac?

A You sure can, as long as you have an
adapter and supporting software.

Kernel Productions makes a popular USB
adapter called the JoyPort ($39.95, www
.kemel.com), which lets you use PlayStation,
Nintendo-64, Genesis, and Atari controllers
to play games on a Mac. Of course, if the
PlayStation controller doesn’t float your boat,
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Q l recently installed an AirPort Base
Station In my house. When 1 access
the internet from my iBook, the Base
Station signal is strong in most of the
rooms, but in some areas of the house
the signal is too weak to maintain a
connection. Is there a way I can extend
the range and boost the signal from my
Base Station?

A Though the AirPort technology offers
amazing freedom, it has limitations—
and they’re exacerbated by any physical
interference that comes between the Base
Station and your AirPort card-equipped
Mac. Maybe your walls are too dense or
thick. Maybe you live in a cavernous
mansion. Maybe someone decided to
build a brick wall between you and your
Base Station.

Short of avoiding those weak-signal
areas in your house, the obvious solution is
to increase the signal power sent out from
the Base Station— unfortunately, Apple
doesn’t offer an official solution for
extending its range. Luckily, we here at
MacAddict have a handy hardware hack you
can try. Be forewarned: This will surely void
your Base Station’s warranty, so proceed
with caution.

Since the heart of Apple’s Base Station
is an Orinoco WaveLAN card, you can boost
its range power with a Lucent Orinoco
Range Extender Antenna (about $70,
vmw.wavelan.com). Because this extender
was originally designed for use with a client
computer’s WaveLAN PC card, you need to
modify your AirPort Base Station to use it.
First, remove the three screws that hold
together the Base Station, and then remove
the screws that hold down the shielding.
Take out the PC Card and install the
Extender per the Instructions printed in its
manual. Next, drill a hole in the side of the
Base Station to snake out the antenna

cable. Finally, reassemble the parts and fire
up the Base Station, Extender Antenna, and
your Mac— you should see a noticeable gain
in AirPort signal strength.

Q Apple’s new Web site drives me
crazy— every time I download a
software update, I have to type in a name
and password. Is there a way to avoid this?

A Love it or hate it, the new Apple.com
may take a little getting used to,
and what can be more frustrating than
having to remember yet another name and
password? If having to type in your info
every time you download really gets your
goat, firstcheckVersiontracker.com or
Macupdate.com for Apple downloads—
sometimes these sites provide direct links
to Apple files for downloading. Another way
to access Apple downloads is to enter
through the backdoor of Apple’s download
site. At press time, we were able to access a
directory listing of all Apple downloads at
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple
_Support_Area/Apple_Software„Updates
/English-North_American without entering
our name or password. We can’t guarantee
this link will stay alive forever, but it’s
certainly worth checking out.

Q l love my new G4, but a strange
hissing noise emanates from the
speakers. What is this and how can I stop it?

A This annoying noise crops up on some
64s. You can do a couple of things to
workaround the problem. The solution is
twofold: Rrst, turn off the modem sound in
the Modem control panel to prevent the
hissing, and second, make sure your Remote
Access control panel is not set to answer
calls. As with any phone or fax connected to
a phone line, you will hear open-line noise if
you don’t prevent calls from coming in.

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Intuos2 tablets start

at a mere 3199. oo-.
Meanwhile, our new

pen directly to screen
for a meager $1899. oo.

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